Comment by 🐙 norayr
of course there are more details but basically that is it.
otherwise, host in yggdrasil. (:
i did this trick with cloudflare argo tunnel for a friend: his isp suddenly started blocking port 443 of the real ip the same isp provided. so friends' mastodon became unavailable.
with xmpp it would not be a problem: in dns you can write which are your s2s and c2s ports and clients and servers will check dns and know how to contact your server.
but since activity pub works via http he could not simply change ports. so we solved it with argo tunnel.
2025-09-27 · 7 months ago
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🚀 stack [OP/mod] · 2025-09-27 at 01:48:
@norayr: does that work for gemini?
🐸 chilledfrogs · 2025-09-28 at 17:40:
FWIW, I used DuckDNS for a while, no issues, can recommend unless you need more complicated TXT records such as for mail servers
🐙 norayr · 2025-09-28 at 17:41:
i think no, it's already tls, you need cloudflare spectrum, which is paid.
🚀 Phosphors-ghost · 2025-09-30 at 10:37:
Really recommend your own domain if you can afford it for a variety of reasons. I use porkbun and pointed ddclient at it. Otherwise, I have used nsupdate.info and really happy with them for a free, non commercial option.
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