Dialling home

HAVE YOU EVER thought about setting up a home server of some kind? Perhaps your own Minecraft server, a remote control server, or maybe a private VPN that lets you remotely dial into your home network and securely access your other devices. If that’s the case, then you may have run across one big problem: dynamic IP addresses.

Even in 2020, most internet accounts don’t come with a fixed IP address. Every time you connect to your ISP, you’re assigned a new internet address. Sure, that IP address may stick around for a long time if you don’t have any power, router or internet outages; but eventually it’s going to change. If you