Joke’s on you, Windows! I forgot my Windows password and haven’t booted into you for months.

I mean, you can get rid of NAT and subnet your systems in a logical fashion. That’s pretty awesome.

I use ULA for my WireGuard tunnels, otherwise it’s all public IPv6 (mostly lightly firewalled).

I’m fine with SLAAC, even for servers. I just manually update my DNS with the server addresses when I set them up.

I give money to LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Armbian, the Wikipedia, and so on. I don’t have to, but it shows my appreciation, and maybe helps them do more in some small way.

I got 135 blocks via sshguard over the first 12 hours today. So, yeah, welcome to the Internet! 😄

There’s a bit about those on the Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.xyz#1.111B_class

There used to be restrictions on a hostname.

These had to start with and end with a letter or number, and have only letters, numbers, or a dash. (I heard that originally hostnames had to start with a letter, but 3M got that changed. This might be an urban legend.)

That’s a common restriction for a name still.

Things get funky when you want non-ASCII names - like if you want a cyrillic or Greek name - as registries often limit the allowed characters to limit “isomorphic attacks”. That’s where you use symbols that look the same to trick people into thinking they’re going to another site, like using a 0 instead of an O, or a l instead of an I.

None of this will apply to the XYZ domains that give you a number.

One other issue that might impact you is if you try to connect using only a numeric name. Some tools will interpret such a name as an IPv4 address. Easily solved by using the full name, but weird and confusing if it happens to you unexpectedly. 😅

Seems like someone already did this:

https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/20565

Maybe upgrading will fix it?

Self reply as a follow up.

I use nom.es for DNS experimentation. These are like $3 a year or so, and work fine.

I miss DotTK, which was dodgy and didn’t support DNSSEC, but was actually free. 😅

I would not expect any issues.

From the point of view of DNS, a name is a name.

You can never tell what weird restrictions any given software is going to place on you (there were a lot of forms that did not like TLD with more than 4 characters, 20 years ago or so). But it’s only $1, so worth experimenting, IMHO.

Please let us know if there are problems!

I’m old school, and would set up Fetchmail. It can pull down either POP or IMAP (I haven’t used POP in 25+ years, but I guess it works fine still). Then I’d run Dovecot or some other IMAP server on my host to read mail from there.

Until there’s an easy way to have an algorithm other than date order, Mastodon will always be sort of “meh” for me.

If it unlocks with a simple pattern, if you use a unlock code that someone can guess, and so on.

Or did you mean remotely?