Ask HN: Is there anyway besides a private VPN to make the Internet less hostile?

Re:Ask HN: Is there anyway besides a private VPN to make the... by NathanTinker on Thursday March 26, 2020 @03:49AM (#22691409)

You could try to host a ssh/shadowsocks/v2ray tunneling server on your own Openwrt home router. However you need a static public IP address for your home router. And you can control all or specific traffic aboard through this tunnel.

> Running an VPN on an Azure/AWS/Digital Ocean instance is not viable because the whole ip range is blocked by automated services like cloudflare, even if it's static.

I am not sure about that. Since I host my tunneling server on an VPS instance for 5 years. My IP packages have never been blocked by any website or CDN even once. However I don't use internet banking, so no idea about that.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there anyway besides a private VPN to make the... by contravariant on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:24PM (#22699379)

You don't need a static IP per se if you use something like duckdns to keep track of where your router is at.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there anyway besides a private VPN to make the... by NathanTinker on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:16AM (#22700406)

Yes, that's right. Static IP is not necessary, any kind of DDNS could make a workaround.

Public IP is not necessary as well. Third party service like ngrok could reverse a tunnel.

However, public static IP is my first choice. Easier, safer and more stable.

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