“Gilfoyle” is an anagram of Cthulu.

Use what works for you.

Chill mate. This is the fedi - you get to actively allow or deny what you see.

No-one can take that away from you.

Blimey there’s a name from the past. I remember painting a Citadel Miniature (white metal job) of a demon of Slaanesh. That would have been around 1986-7ish. Four armed thing and looked bloody nasty! That was before Warty-Forty really took off.

I moulded a little skull out of Milliput, with a tiny snake running in through the base and out of an eye socket. I separated a foot from the base and lifted it up a bit and stuck the skull under it. White metal is quite soft but you have to be careful. I spent quite a while modelling “grass” and such. The grass went from a dead looking green/brown around the demon to normal in a sort of circle of ruin.

Nowadays my eyesight can barely see a 00 brushes’ bristles, let alone let me use one.

I once named a load of servers for a helicopter company in the UK with elements. The cluster nodes were copper, silicon, etc. The cluster itself was called iron. The volumes were labelled fe_function.

It worked - it was easy to read and the bits that implied “cluster” were grouped appropriately. All the other servers had random elemental names unless they were associated in some way, in which case the group would be used. The engineers (real engineers with oil or distressingly nasty lubricants in their veins) loved it - it made sense, without being too quirky. It was very legible.

When those systems were hoicked out and replaced, the usual nonsense was applied: 2 char country code + 2 char site code etc etc ad nauseam. Followed by my absolute pet hate: 01. Oh so you might need 99 domain controllers? Yes you might, but not on one site.

Let’s face it, it is mostly AD admins who don’t get hostnames. I blame MS - their docs and blogs strive to be … authoritative or at least look so. An entire generation (possibly two) of sysadmins have been sold up the river by MS and their wankery.

That IPv6 forwarding page is strange. IPv6 does not need forwarding.

Anyway, I am trying to find a manual for your router. A Google search shows that it is probably NL localized and probably Asian manufactured for NL ISPs. Are you able to get a manual from your ISP? Their website looks just like one of ours - no help at all. I have also tried searching on the model and not much comes back.

I’m off on holidays for a few days. I’ll be back on dinsdag/tuesday (08/08/2023).

That is for ping. ICMP v6 REQ: REQ means request and is a NAT type of terminology. A firewall rule allows some form of inbound traffic - here ICMP ping inbound (REQ), and then creates a state entry which allows the corresponding return traffic (RESP or response) - pong!

ping can be useful to determine connectivity and that rule will not open you up to anything nasty.

Your router seems to have been designed by someone who gives a shit about security, which is a good sign.

You don’t need to put the IPv6 address into your browser. The host command shows that you have got DNS sorted - try:

$ dig @9.9.9.9 myserver.now-dns.net AAAA

That should return an IPv6 address and the @9.9.9.9 means: use the Quad9 DNS server - 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 will also try external DNS servers - CloudFlare and Google. Hopefully that’s naming sorted out.

Now to actual access. Your router will (probably), by default, block all inbound connections. I’ve just had a look at your screenshot and it has a menu entry: “Port forwarding IPv6”. IPv6 doesn’t need port forwarding really but I suspect that is how you allow access. I am now guessing. There is such a thing as IPv6 NAT and something called NPT (Network Prefix Translation) which is not for the faint of heart!

Have a look around in that menu a screen shot might help.

It might help if you tell us where you are (very roughly - country and perhaps city), your ISP and router model. I can get you to the point of all of this working but there are rather a lot of unknowns. I can see that your router offers Dutch or English so I will guess you are from the Netherlands.

As well as a link local address you should also have one or more globally routeable ones too. Hopefully you have at least one of those set up in DNS with a AAAA address. Therefore you should be able to put the address of your web server into your browser and off it goes. In theory IPv6 should be preferred by your browser, so even if both an A record and a AAAA record resolve for the name, IPv6 should kick in.

A quick check would be:

$ host mywebserver.example.co.uk

That should return an IPv4 and an IPv6 address. The IPv6 address is the same for internal and external - there is no distinction, which can be surprising if you are used to IPv4 and NAT. The final bit of the equation is that your internet router needs to allow access “from all to globally routeable ipv6 address of the web server”.

I can see that you have bound nginx to port 80 on both IPv4 and 6 - the two Listen directives.

• Can you get to it locally via IPv6 as well as IPv4?
• Can you get to it via IPv4 externally?

Let’s get right down to basics:

• ping -6 google.com - from the web server, does it work?
• ping -6 google.com - from your PC/laptop.phone, does it work?
• https://test-ipv6.com

I’m on GMT+1/BST/UTC+1 so its a bit late now. I’ll pick up tomorrow pm

This explains about how to deal with DCs in great detail: https://www.veeam.com/blog/how-to-recover-a-domain-controller-best-practices-for-ad-protection.html

Best of luck. Let us know how you get on

There is a lot going on there so I suggest divide and conquer. Shut down Caddy and configure something like nginx or apache with a simple static index.html page with a single word in it. Does that work? Start really simple, so open port 80 as well as 443 and add ssl only once you have proven http works OK.

So that might be Matty and Miya Meiikaalayinen. Dealing with diacritics from a language that has none is a bit tricky.

Am I even close?

Into the void - Black Sabbath

You are using an account from l.w which is the largest instance in the lemmyverse so if you create a community, there is a good chance people will notice. You could also spin up your own instance but that isn’t for the faint of heart but you could sponsor one or hire someone to run one for you. You can run accounts on as many instances that will have you and they can be named whatever you like.

My real point is you have real options that don’t end with a walled garden dictating what you can and can’t do. It is a bit rough around the edges but give it time.

There is absolutely no reason why there isn’t an Arabic first instance or web of instances. Start off small and see what happens. Get a community setup on your instance and post about it. Don’t be discouraged if progress is slow. Inertia is rife in all walks of life. People in general are a bit crap! The fediverse is no different, especially because it is all rather new to a lot of people.

Arabic and Islam (there I’ve said it) are often conflated, so please keep the faith (hah!) and either find or develop your community as you want it.

Fediverse - effort required and a really crap colour scheme!

Good luck 8)

The Fediverse is rather different. I’m sure there will develop some sort of sign posting system to point out where to go but by its very nature, it will be subjective. Perhaps some sort of vivacity score could be used to judge how alive a community is and some way to show all communities across all instances in a say top 10 listing. In time communities with the same broad focus will develop a particular or set of focuses (foci, focae - not for me). Time will tell.

Lemmy is different to the walled gardens and it needs to mature and develop its own way of doing things. I love the fact that the largest instance went down with a bang for a while and the rest carried on fine. I feel for lemmy.world residents and admins - I’m a sysadmin myself. However that demonstrates the sheer power of the fediverse. I will be spinning up an instance eventually, once I’ve got the hang of using it and I run some quite important stuff at work.

Tools and memes will develop over time but make no mistake, the fediverse has hit its teens in life. What sort of adult we get will be interesting. We do need to keep it out of the hands of a single authority whilst still allowing civilized discussion, for a given value of civilized. Instances can refuse to peer with others so we can gradually develop networks that work for subsets of the human race. The tricky bit is enabling this to happen within earthly laws and boundaries. Governments hate decentralization for obvious reasons. Instead of Messrs Apple, Google, MS etc they potentially have to deal with me and you and the other n billion people on the planet!