[TriLUG] Getting around ISP port blocks with VPN?

[Michael Marley via TriLUG]

To which ISP are you switching?  Many residential ISPs have few or no 
incoming port blocks, so you may not need to do anything special for it 
to work.  Neither of the ones I have used (Spectrum or Google Fiber) 
blocked any of the common ports for SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, SMTP, etc.

Michael

On 2020/07/22 16:58, Brian via TriLUG wrote:
> Hey Gang,
>
> I currently have business-class cable internet.  I've been thinking 
> about dumping it for residential fiber.  What I'm trying to figure out 
> is the best way to deal with possible port blocking that might be in 
> place on the residential services.  Having a secured tunnel to some 
> public interface out in the cloud somewhere seems like a possible 
> approach, but I don't really know what words to use to describe it to 
> Google well enough to find people selling such a thing.
>
> Presently my home server/firewall simply has a public interface with 
> ports open for the services I host.  What I imagine is instead there 
> being a VPN (or some other secure tunnel) to a server in the cloud 
> somewhere through which all my server traffic (i.e. connections 
> initiated from outside) would be routed, thereby sidestepping any port 
> blocks on my local ISP.
>
> Is this a thing?  What do you call it?  Does anybody on the list 
> already do something like this?
>
> Thanks,
> -Brian