QOTD: Do you have a way to get back into your home network if you get locked out?

I have a Tor hidden service that lets me SSH into my server from anywhere. I never had to use it until last week. I was playing around with the port forwarding configuration on my router for Wireguard (migrating to a new server, very exciting), forgot to change it back, and found myself an hour away from home hoping to watch a show on Jellyfin. All it took to fix it was an SSH port forward through that hidden service to (very slowly) access my home router’s Web interface.

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QOTD: Do you have a way to get back into your home network if you get locked out?

No. My network is firewalled and the only way into it is physically being on it.

@mckinley@twtxt.net I used to have an SSH port reachable from the outside, but since I’m doing 99.999999% working-from-home now, I no longer need that. (I don’t even have a desk at the office anymore and – and this is important for us Germans! – no parking spot, either! 😅)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I work entirely remotely myself too, so I don’t really need this level of remote access either.

@prologic@twtxt.net There’s no remote administration in the Mills DC? Not even through a VPN?

@mckinley@twtxt.net Nope.

@prologic@twtxt.net I guess the difference is that your self-hosted services are publicly accessible so it allows such a setup. For me, everything is over Wireguard. If that link breaks and I’m not at home I can’t resolve domain names, let alone do any kind of server administration. That’s what the hidden service is for.

Early on, I was thinking about WAN IP address changes as well but it hasn’t happened in ~2.5 years with this ISP.

@mckinley@twtxt.net I just accept that if shit™ breaks, there ain’t much I can do about it until I can. So that forces me to automate things as much as possible.

@mckinley@twtxt.net

Early on, I was thinking about WAN IP address changes as well but it hasn’t happened in ~2.5 years with this ISP.

You mean to say you have the same public IP all the time? For 2.5 years now? Without paying extra? 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de not uncommon. I have mine for the last 4+ years.

@bender@twtxt.net Heh, crazy. Here in Germany, they make you pay good extra money for that. I get a new IP every time my router connects to the internet.