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How To Get “Provider Independent” IP Address For Your Home Server?

Started by Scoundrel · 9 months ago

Some years ago I decided to stop using public mail services and decided to buy my own domain and to setup my own mail server at home to handle all of my email. Work was completed very quickly and I got my own working e-mail server and my own mail domain! Some time there was [...] ... Continue reading »

30 comments

  • wert2all

    3 years ago

    Понравилось. автор молодец.
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  • Search Engines Web

    3 years ago

    Thank you, this is a valuable article - definitely a Bookmarker :-)

    You just made the front page of Digg
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  • Charlie Hayes

    3 years ago

    Why not find a better ISP that is willing to give you a real public IP?
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  • Scoundrel

    3 years ago

    2Charlie Hayes: When this configuration has been created, I was not able to pay a lot of money for high quality internet connection with real IP. I worked in small ISP as duty unix admin...
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  • Scoundrel

    3 years ago

    2Search Engines Web: Yeah! I am really happy! My blog is on the main page of the DIGG! ;-)
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  • Daniel

    3 years ago

    Interesting article, I need to do some test on it.
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  • [GEEKS ARE SEXY] Tech. News

    3 years ago

    Oh sweet...

    "Why not find a better ISP that is willing to give you a real public IP?"

    Because you have no control over what your ISP decides to do... Hmm, in this case, if you loose your job, you loose your IP. Bah.. you cannot have everything.. At least, this solution is cheaper for him.

    Kiltak
    [Geeks Are Sexy] Tech. News
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  • abulhasnaat

    3 years ago

    thank you
    thank you
    thank you
    been trying to find this stuff for a long time now.
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  • xx

    3 years ago

    no use. some of us need free tunneling.
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  • UR-A-Linooser

    3 years ago

    I am sure your employer really liked that you used their address space and probably company time, bandwidth an network resources to help you host your mail.
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  • Scoundrel

    3 years ago

    They know about this tunnel and this work has been done in my private time. ;-)
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  • Will

    3 years ago

    There are lots of ways do do the same thing using IPSEC, GRE, IP-in-IP, even SSH and a proxy, but this kind of thing is a violation of pretty much every companies Internet usage policy, which most people sign when hired. If your company is cool with it, great. But for 99.9% of the people, doing something like this can result in termination of employment and/or legal action. Most may say it won't happen, but trust me, I know firsthand that it does.
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  • Paula Abdool

    3 years ago

    I thought this article was going to be about getting ARIN to provide /32 that he could put in his back pocket and trip around with. Not sure how this is provider independant, cuz *someone* is SWIPing the IP block out to his employer... therefore being a provider?
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  • Scoundrel

    3 years ago

    2Paula Abdool: "Provider Independent" is quoted in article subject! ;-)
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  • Scoundrel

    3 years ago

    2Will: As I said, my employer knows about this configurations and that is rhy I can say: "My company is great!" :-)
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  • Jeremy L. Gaddis

    3 years ago

    "provider-independent", huh?

    What happens when your employer is forced to renumber or their provider changes or something similar occurs? You'll just be renumbering again. Just get a decent ISP and skip all the bullsh*t.
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  • Jeremy L. Gaddis

    3 years ago

    Go check out this guy's "Resume/CV" page and scroll down to his "Employment History". He's presently employed by "New Age Opt-in". Sounds like a spammer to me!
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  • Scoundrel

    3 years ago

    Jeremy, why do you trying to say something bad? As you can read here:
    Opt-in e-mail advertising or permission marketing is a method of advertising by electronic mail wherein the recipient of the advertisement has consented to receive it.

    New Age Opt-In company sends mail only to people which are subscribed to it!
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  • DD32

    3 years ago

    Scoundrel: Unfortunatly thanks to the actions of some people, ANY opt-in company will be scutinized(And remember that Digg Users are really... yeah.. about things like that) Since most of the fake 'opt-in' companies claim that too its all too common.

    -=DD32=-
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  • Mark

    3 years ago

    Wow check out his schooling :X and I'm over here with about an 8th of that...
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  • SFDK

    3 years ago

    Yes, IP will be independent from ISP you're using at home.Decent ISP is good but not each and every ISP offers statical real IP addresses.Some are using dynamic IPs only.LAN Ethernet ISPs are often preferring private IPs because they're at begin of their way so it costs too much to pay for IP range.Also as you maybe aware, IPv4 uses 32 bits for addressing.When each device needs its IP (yeah, each mobile phone, for example) there is simple not enough IP addresses so such situation will be even worse in future.
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  • Zach

    3 years ago

    As said many times on NANOG, "I highly encourage my competitors to do this."

    TCP in TCP tunnels are bad ideas in general. It shouldn't take too much googling to figure out what the rubber band effect is.
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  • baron

    3 years ago

    OpenVPN would be a much better solution. Configuration is extremely simple, it uses tun/tap devices, and it encrypts the connection over SSL.
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  • Scoundrel

    3 years ago

    2baron: What type of tunnel will be used is not significant. The idea of this article is how to use linux policy routing in real life.
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  • deho

    3 years ago

    ДлÑ? раÑ?Ñ?мотренного примера задачу можно решить проще и без iptables/packet mangling.

    ВмеÑ?то

    ip "rule add fwmark 65 table hof";
    ip "route add default via 10.220.0.1 dev tun0 table hof�;
    firewall “-t mangle -A PREROUTING -s RE.AL.AD.DR -j MARK –set-mark 65″;
    firewall “-t mangle -A OUTPUT -s RE.AL.AD.DR -j MARK –set-mark 65″;

    доÑ?таточно указать

    ip rule add from RE.AL.AD.DR table hof
    ip route add default via 10.220.0.1 dev tun0 table hof

    а вмеÑ?то

    /usr/sbin/farpd -i eth0 RE.AL.AD.DR

    можно иÑ?пользовать вÑ?троенные в Ñ?дро возможноÑ?ти по прокÑ?ированию arp:

    ip nei add proxy RE.AL.AD.DR dev eth0

    в общем, Ñ?татейка так Ñ?ебе ;-)
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  • красота

    2 years ago

    Просто супер рецепт.
    Уже записал и запомнил, обязательно пригодится.
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  • ipaddr.ru

    1 year ago

    Here you can find the real provider-independent addresses: www.getownip.com
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  • find ip address

    9 months ago

    Hosting your own mail server can be a great learning experience and all but it must be hard to get all your mail delivered.
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  • Jiri Novotny

    7 months ago

    Very nice and informative article. We are a small internet provider in Czech republic, we don't want to waste our finances to register LIR and don't want to spend our time negotiating with RIPE to get an additional blok of ipaddresses. You offer much cheaper and faster solution that is suttable for company like ours! We definitely should make a deal with you =)
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  • ipaddr.ru

    5 months ago

    Hi Jiri! If you want to get an independent address space without signing LIR contract, just call us +420721207705 and we can arrange meeting. We can request resources from RIPE for you.
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