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Written by Andrew Golding on 2025-01-15 at 15:23

I want to do a silly thing of hooking up a 386 to the internet as a server, for reasons. Since the physical machine is at my residence, I was thinking that the setup would look like 386 -> SBC that handles HTTP proxying, filtering, etc (probably an RPi 4) -> Tailscale -> Endpoint that NS records points to in some hosted service.

I was wondering if anybody had any recommendations as far as hosting providers, and whether there are alternatives to Tailscale.

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Written by Craig Brozefsky on 2025-01-15 at 15:35

@huronbikes Dynamic DNS pointing to your router's external IP, passing thru HTTP directly to the 386 works. I used to do this back in the 90s with a 386sx25 with 4mb or ram, running slackware, and forwarding a port on a server with an IP to the 386 over a ttty socket multiplexer.

Also, straight wireguard will do just fine for something that a cloud hosted server forwarding to your system.

The Dynamic DNS solution has worked for me for decades. Home servive IPs change so infrequently. I also run OpenWRT on my router, so I can handle this all from there. You can always have the 386 handle the dyndns updates tho.

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Written by Andrew Golding on 2025-01-15 at 16:11

@craigbro The 386 will have a device between it and the rest of the network anyways because a) want to keep network devices that need a slower media type off the network, b) I might not use HTTP on the 386 itself, and c) might also want to have certain capabilities exposed on the web that would come from a serial terminal as well (eg "here's some stuff that runs in DOS in my machine and gives you a result in the browser!")

Dynamic DNS sounds promising, I haven't thought about that in a decade.

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Written by Andrew Golding on 2025-01-15 at 16:14

@craigbro I'm still using the router I recieved during the initial service setup of my home internet 7 years back, I should probably find a replacement for that.

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Written by Craig Brozefsky on 2025-01-15 at 20:01

@huronbikes life is funner with your own cable model or ONT and a OpenWRT device, and cheaper.

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