epic: Make FreedomBox reachable from the outside world
Created by: mray
Problem
By default FreedomBox can't provide any features that require a connection from the "internet" back to your FreedomBox at home behind a router. The solutions we currently offer are not fit for a recommended default or an auto-set-up. Its drawbacks are:
1. DynDNS
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DynDNS relies on a third party can be expensive or unreliable - all services depend 100% on it
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DynDNS is hard to set up automatically especially behind a router and with the variety of possible DynDNS services
2. Hidden Tor service
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put non-acceptable burden on all client side communication needs extra tools installed and running on all devices -or- native application support
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comes with a serious bandwidth limitation especially problematic for file synchronization, backups, music streaming, ...
3. Pagekite
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relies on third party, too
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only supports limited amount of protocols
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is bandwidth sensitive, too due to tunneling of all traffic
Blockchain based DNS solutions may offer an acceptable way to go?
namecoin.org?
Blockstack?
OpenNIC? ...