On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Nick Daly <nick.m.daly@gmail.com> wrote:

0: https://bitbucket.org/nickdaly/plugserver/

That's a pretty fantastic document! I am impressed. :-)

PS: I'd appreciate if anyone could offer ideas on how to make Freedomboxes (or similar servers) reachable over the internet, through ISPs that fight *really* hard (through their policies and standard hardware) to prevent users from hosting or serving anything. I'm looking for hackier solutions than "change ISPs" because, thanks to the monopoly American ISP market, that option's mostly irrelevant. (Is there some sort of DNS alternative out there?)

I created PageKite (www.pagekite.org) to deal with exactly this problem. It's a bit like "dynamic DNS for mobile devices and people without public IPs" - it's free (AGPLv3) software, backed by a small startup company in Iceland which runs the necessary "in the cloud" public infrastructure for those who don't have servers of their own or the time to do it themselves. It does HTTP and HTTPS seamlessly, and SSH with only minor tweaks to the client config - if you have control over the client almost any TCP-based protocol can work, but the user-friendliness varies. Notable omissions compared your needs, is PageKite can't currently help with e-mail, and Jabber support hasn't been written yet (but is on the cards if you want to help test I could bump up the priority a bit). -- Bjarni R. Einarsson Founder, lead developer of PageKite. Make localhost servers visible to the world: http://pagekite.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE