How do I find out what IPs to give, my IP doesnt stay the same? The local IP is hardly the one they want, it wouldnt make sense I think.
First of all they’re fucking doing it wrong. Manual IP whitelisting instead of API auth is appallingly dated
why would one do either? By whitelisting you entirely prevent traffic. API auth takes processing. How wrong is it? Maybe for your home usage it’s good enough but layering measures has value…
It means you’re doing boutique instead of scalable, and/or they don’t know how to deal with the traffic and auth infrastructure
My ISP charges a good chunk for static IP (because they consider it a business connection). However, my $10/mo VPS (which I already had for other projects) has its own static IP and I can easily proxy individual requests through it as needed. Have looked at VPS instances for $5/months before.
Depending on the service, your ISP, and how easily you can change IPs in the registration, as others have mentioned, you could just give them your public. I’ll say my own public does change at least twice a month, so if I can’t automate updating a registration, it goes through VPS or it’s a service I just skip.
I hadn’t even considered this to proxy stuff through, can’t believe it. Thats a great idea.
Definitely something I need to sort out at some point. Cheers.
Might be time, if you’re serious about it, to reach out to your ISP and price a static public IP.
Nooo.
Get a VPS with static IP and tunnel. And cloudflare.
You don’t want a residential static IP. You will get (d)DoS. Your ISP will terminate you.
I’ve had a static IP for years, serving all kind of stuff, and had zero problems. Home assistant, Jellyfin streaming, Bittorrent and more.
I’d recommend pangolin on a vps and skipping cloudflare. It makes the tunnel super simple. Just make sure to harden then VPS.
There’s a decent chance your public IP, even though not technically static, doesn’t change all that often. Depends on your ISP, but I’ve only had my public IP change unexpectedly once over ~5 years of self-hosting and that was after a 24-hour power outage.
Yep, before I got a real, actual static IP I had a “sticky” IP that only changed once over 5 years, and they sent an email warning of it first. but most ISPs will offer a static IP upgrade for a reasonable price, even if they dont advertise it.
now I have a static IP and a giant IPV6 allocation to play with too.
They want the IP that your ISP assigned to your modem. So go to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ to see the IP addresses.
However your ISP can change the IP address whenever they want. If you really need to be sure your IP address never changes then get a VPS with a static IP then run a VPN on it so you can tunnel your connection through that VPS. This way you will always have the same IP even if you change ISP or move.
Another good one ifconfig.me it can be used from a terminal to easily get your IP address
curl ifconfig.me
Super simple and clean response back too.
Your ISP will have a block of IPv4 address space. Go to any of the websites that will tell you your IP address, some might even tell you the block (otherwise other sites will tell you what the block is). Your ISP might even just tell you this.
E.g. your public IP might be 12.34.56.78 and the block might be 12.34.0.0/16.
You can give the block to your vendor saying you’ll be coming from one address in that range. That way no matter what IP you get issued it’ll be allowed.
I’ll second a static IP from your ISP is probably what you need. However oven never had one and I don’t think my external IP ever changed. As long as the integration isn’t critical, given my own experience, I’d probably risk it and then decide if I needed to get a static IP.
Now you might also consider getting a n inexpensive VPS and route through that server which would likely have a static out bound block of IPs.
Smarter people than me are here though. I’m still in the “fear of opening ports to the internet” while at home phase.
Definitely see how often your public IP changes. I got a few months into my new fibre connection and I realized that my address hasn’t changed. Two years in I’m hosting a bunch of websites on it and my address hasn’t changed once. Regular residential fibre connection.
If you use whois ip.address it will give you a subnet mask, the “company” may accept that
You could get a free dynDNS name with noip.com (you’ll need to verify the domain every month by logging in) this way even if you have a dynamic ip, it automatically gets updated via the hostname if you set this in your router (most brands should be able to do this).
