0 sats \ 0 replies \ @l0k18 19 Jul 2023 \ on: Daily discussion thread
I had the best wake-up this morning. My second laptop runs a VM with a web server in it, and the laptop is also bridging the fast 5ghz wifi back to my work space, which is on the borderline of useless for 5ghz due to walls and whatnot.
Neither the device's network connection, and therefore nothing else connected to it was relaying traffic, nasty question mark on all devices wired through it.
My conclusion was that the braniacs at Virgin UK internet decided that I must be serving a website, never mind that almost nothing was going to it. It had port 22 open with certificate only access, and of course as any sysadmin will know, that usually also means a constant droning baseline of bots trying all the common passwords and getting banned by fail2ban.
And very likely the actual traffic volume it was bringing inbound was tiny and very infrequently of any amount of serious volume, and the uploads also. Who knows, maybe someone put a site scraper on it and this activity is how they noticed it, would have been visible as a very high upstream utilisation for a time.
300mbit down, 30mbit up on this line.
I so miss my bulgarian internet connections. 100mbit optic fibre no muss no fuss, 99.5% uptime, you could run a 99.99% uptime system just by getting three different and differently backbone-connected services there.
But here. Yeah, 10x down as up. And the guy who pays for it says he often has problems especially when he is trying to upload his own data to offsite storage if it uses UDP, but even sometimes with TCP running the connections.
I think time is coming to depart this Ministry of Truth internet. It's probably starting to get like Ireland now, some day soon I will wake up and suddenly I won't be able to get my protonmail, same shit as happened when I landed in Dublin.
I got it working by installing proton VPN and connecting it up, but honestly, if you MUST have a VPN to use the actual internet somewhere, you might need to reconsider the safety of your situation.
Side note: I may look white but I'm only 2 generations distant from fully dark skinned indonesian from the region near the border of PNG. Refugees they were. My father was constantly harassed by peers in school to the point he had to sock a few of them out in the end as they kept it up and wouldn't leave him alone. And it's not hard to see how he looks a lot like a "half caste" aboriginal.