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What self-hosted services can help during a crisis or emergency? This is for those affected OR those who want to help (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This was posted on the other site. It can be found below on this post.

They talk about how even Jellyfin & Jitsi were valuable for dealing with government's actions in shutting down the internet. Does anything else come to mind? In addition to giving advice, can we host anything to help people in this kind of situation?

Suddenly our Self Hosted application became more than just hobby.

If you already don't know, Bangladesh was disconnected from the internet for majority of the last week due to government order. It was shut down without any warning. We were put under curfew 24/7, so no leaving home.

On the second day of curfew, me, with nothing to do, figured the intranet in our country still worked. So I opened my Jellyfin service up and gave access to my immediate family and friends. Then we had people stepping up. One opened a simple chat application. Believe me, I never felt happier reading messages from a bunch of random people on the internet. Once people started communicating it only got better. We had a jitsi meet up and running within a few hours. People opened up their media library. Last couple of days, I almost didn't miss the traditional internet.

I have to thank you guys for all the encouragement. Also I do have a few questions for you guys.

I'm fearing this will not be the last time we will be blocked from the world. What can we do to make things even better next time? One major problem was TLS CERTS stopped working. So the communication was in http using IP address

What are some apps to host if the same situation to arise again?

Sorry for the bad English, not my first language.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If you already don't know, Bangladesh was disconnected from the internet for majority of the last week due to government order. It was shut down without any warning. We were put under curfew 24/7, so no leaving home. On the second day of curfew, me, with nothing to do, figured the intranet in our country still worked.

Anyone know more about that? Is that just customer-to-customer communication?

I've been fortunate enough to never experience a government-mandated internet shutdown, but I figure the ISPs just disconnect the gateways. If I'm understanding that correctly, it sounds like they just used the ISP network to carry traffic internally. Very clever!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I am curious too. It has been hard to get much information out between the internet shutdown, the language barrier, and the lack of press freedoms. I will post a link if I find anything!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, if you find more info about that, please share.

If that is the case, DNS would definitely be a crucial service to self-host and make available.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Sounds like a few people need to spin up a DNS server.

I think it would be cool to create a WiFi mesh that spans multiple buildings. You could have wired and wireless connections.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

The internet was designed to route around failure. Taking down an isp upstream wouldn't generally impact internal routing, or routing between them if they're peering.