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On Thu, 16 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 16/01/2025 09:33, Mike Scott wrote:
>> On 15/01/2025 20:31, Pancho wrote:
>>> I think you have to be careful that they are not controlled by a cloud 
>>> service. If you have a cloud service you need a working wan connection and 
>>> you are exposed to the cloud service provider disappearing.
>> 
>> (Thanks to all for replying)
>> 
>> This is the rub. tp-link clearly /want/ the consumer to use their "cloud" 
>> service - which is usually just a fancy codeword for 'we want your data'. 
>> There's no actual /need/ that I can see in this case.
>> 
> Actually there is.
>
> It is the simple way to solve 'remote access' to your 'behind NAS' network 
> connected gadgets
>
> Now *we* can organise that because we are geeks, but te average coinsumer? 
> Doan mak me larf!

I use tor to give me a globally unique name where I can access my stuff 
behind NAT as a Tor hidden service.

I've been thinking that perhaps I might be able to use yggdrasil to get a 
ipv6 address to do the same, without the latency of tor.

Has anyone tried it, or have some other methodology that does not depend 
on dyndns or similar web sites?