It’s just being enumerated!

If you want to be able to accept mail, you’ll need to directly expose your mail server on your public IP (router configuration required). You’ll also need to allow your server to egress your WAN as well. That being said - if you really want tighten your security, and don’t care about missing some emails, you could limit your server to seeing only those servers you know you’ll be communicating with, such as work, bank, or GMail servers only.

You can make it so that retrieving your email with your client of choice requires a VPN connection to your home network also.

Damn, I thought you were going to take me out to dinner first

Thank God, that would’ve eaten me alive

Still better than switching

Those are some nice balloons

Unless OP means they shoot the homeless and afterwards attempt to feed them

Can we unpin this post now? No offense to the post, but this community is for all Apple products and we’re well past the Vision Pro release.

Were your parents the least bit concerned?

Tattoos

I’m talking about the commenter in this thread, not the post OP

He’s not talking about backpacks

This is some real uplifting news right here!

I just can’t believe how many said yes

What VPS are you using?

You should be able to setup a firewall, blocking all access to the SSH port. Then setup a VPN so that only you can access via SSH after making your VPN connection.

If you connect via a static IP, you can also create an ACL for the VPN connection just in case. You can set an ACL for the SSH port forward rule directly as well, but I don’t like that personally. I prefer keeping things behind the VPN.

How did these two even come to this position??

Black Mirror

VoIP systems are getting us closer to your example. Properly provisioned VoIP (on-prem or cloud) can take a SIP user which looks exactly like an email address and direct digital calls to a physical phone. These days it’s likely going to be sent to an office desk phone or a Teams user, but many years from now it will likely be more common to dial out like that from/to any phone device.

I think your example is a bit more nuanced in that there’s some sort of regional database that I suppose one could register for when they change their address. But I don’t think we’re moving in that direction. Things are moving in a decentralized manner and folks hold onto their digital identities, regardless of their geographical location. So like others comments have said, the phone book system is not evolving any further, because modern communication systems are already the evolved version.

This is awesome.

The multi xxxx registration is god damned mad lad max level.

Very strange, but glad you worked it out!

I’ll keep this thread in mind if I ever run into something similar.

Well, dig is available also of course, but nearly all distros still include nslookup despite it getting deprecated. I like the simplicity of its interactive mode.

Host is also really great with more human-readable output.

Don’t get me wrong, when things are getting hairy, you’re going to make a lot of use of dig. I just find that most troubleshooting can be taken care of a lot simpler with host or nslookup.