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"I will concede am lucky enough to have static IPv4/IPv6 addresses on my home connection." A while back, some HN commenters in a Wireguard thread tried to argu

by 3xblah 6y ago

"I will concede am lucky enough to have static IPv4/IPv6 addresses on my home connection." A while back, some HN commenters in a Wireguard thread tried to argue that all home connections have static IP addresses, or at least ones that do not change frequently enough to be an issue. If I had a static IP address I, too, would consider myself lucky.

swrobel 6y ago
Why not use use a dynamic dns service? My router updates my VPN's dns entry automatically at cloudflare when it gets a new up. Everything works like magic just like the previous poster's setup, except without a static home ip.
- sithadmin 6y ago
  Many mobile devices don't permit setting a hostname for DNS provider.
  - edoceo 6y ago
    It's hostname for VPN endpoint not DNS.
- edoceo 6y ago
  This works for me, my Pi has a little script to get public IP and update DNS. The rare IP switch at home is updated in 10 minutes. Bonus the endpoint is in my domain.
- jlgaddis 6y ago
  Many ISPs, particular in EMEA, don't even hand out public IP addresses to their customers; cf. CGNAT [0]. End users, at home, will get RFC1918 or RFC6598 IPs from their provider. While they could still use a dynamic DNS service, the public IP that it sees will actually be a public IP address that is shared by many customers. --- [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT