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Cloudflare is bad. Youre right. (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by Kuvwert@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Centralization is bad for everyone everywhere.

That bring said... I just moved my homeserver to another city... and I plugged in the power, then I plugged in the ethernet, and that was the whole shebang.

Tunnels made it very easy. No port forwarding no dns configuration no firewall fiddling no nothing.

Why do they have to make it so so easy...

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[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 months ago

Unless you are behind CGNAT; you would have had the same plug+play experience by using your own router instead of the ISP supplied one, and using DDNS.

At least, I did.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Yes, but it does expose your own IP address and thus where you live. Tunnels don't.

[-] Auli@twit.social -1 points 2 months ago

@qaz @Darkassassin07 what are you even saying? Ip address doesn’t expose where you live. And better get off the internet right now if your concern is exposing your ip cause it was never secret to begin with.
Tunnels stop you from opening a port so nothing is exposed openly to the internet but it does not keep your ip private.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ip address doesn’t expose where you live.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=geoip+lookup

Tunnels stop you from opening a port so nothing is exposed openly to the internet^1^ but it does not keep your ip private^2^.

This is also incorrect.

The entire purpose of CF tunnels is to expose sites on the internet
CF tunnels (and services like it e.g. ngrok) rely on shared proxy servers that forward traffic based on HTTP host headers (which is why you can't forward arbitrary TCP traffic). The IP of the site will therefore have the shared IP of the company's proxy server instead of your own.

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

How do you imagine that geoblocking content works if IP addresses don't expose where you live?

And better get off the internet right now if your concern is exposing your ip cause it was never secret to begin with.

qaz could be using any of dozens of different methods to obfuscate their IP from the wider internet to write their comment, Tor or a VPN to name just a couple.

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