Subj : Re: Linux and Fido
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Thu Feb 06 2020 14:36:00

-=> On 02-05-20 12:39, Richard Menedetter wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 RM> Hi Tony!

 RM> 05 Feb 2020 21:17, from Tony Langdon -> Richard Menedetter:

 TL> I prefer not to work across the network like that, because the way I
 TL> read messages makes latency a big issue.

 RM> ??? You really do notice some 10s of millisconds???
 RM> My virtual server is in another country (albeight a neighbouring one)
 RM> and I have less than 30 ms roundtrip there.
 RM> For me it feels instantaneous.

Most providers are 200-400 mS from here, depending on location, and yes, when
flicking through messages, I do notice that.

 TL> I'm not familiar with shell in a box.
 RM> It is basically a Shell inside the browser.
 RM> It uses HTTPS to tunnel the traffic to the server, and then accesses
 RM> SSH locally. (Hence it looks like normal HTTPS communication to any
 RM> proxy! ;) https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox

That sounds quite useful!  As I said, I use ZeroTier, which makes me
effectively a part of my home network.  Static (private) IPv4 and IPv6
addressing and no need to worry about NAT timeouts or NAT itself.  It "just
works". :)  But I can see a lot of uses for Shell in a Box, because it uses
HTTPS.

 TL> I've never tried to compile Husky/htick, so I can't comment on that
 TL> one.

 RM> Had nothing to do with our exchange.
 RM> Just did not want to write another mail for that topic, and state that
 RM> I did not have any issues with it´;)

Fair enough, but the idea of compiling it doesn't give me any cause for
concern.  If I need to, I suspect I'll have no issues.


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