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Re:Ways to surf some of the decentralized web by input_sh on Sunday April 12, 2020 @04:39AM (#22846805)
Assuming that an IP address is only assigned to you and not to other users (via a NAT that you have no control over), it's easy to occasionally ping your DNS server with your IPv4 address and assign a hostname to it.

If your DNS provider has an API, it's probably the first example in the API documentation. If not, there's DuckDNS and similar.

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Re:Ways to surf some of the decentralized web by icedchai on Sunday April 12, 2020 @12:09PM (#22849129)
This is true, though there are still often port limitations. For example, with residential connections here, port 25, 80, and 443 are filtered incoming, so you can't run a web server or SMTP server on a normal port. Also servers technically violate the AUP. Business connections have no such restrictions.
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