When authentication is down and you can’t figure out the DNS issue, it’s probably time.
You’re absolutely correct; time is like open source software in that it’s just there and works, and corporations don’t consider paying for it or hosting themselves.
All Starlink customers get a reasonably sized IPv6 address space.
CGNAT isn’t really the limiter here. Websites that aren’t IPv6 accessible are maybe a problem if there’s high traffic. It’s not hard to host on IPv6. Although, apparently GitHub finds it difficult to host either ipv4 or 6.
Something open backed like TROFAST is a better option than being enclosed on 4 sides. You need enough volume that the thermal output of the system is less than what is needed to heat the space to “bad” temperatures. Linen closet might be ok, but it’s hard to say for sure.
If you keep the back of the cabinet open I imagine it’ll be ok. Or stick a couple fans to cycle air through a cutout if you are handy.
On the ground it’ll pick up a lot of dust, fast.
It’s a terrible time to be doing this. There’s some decent NAS devices that use mobile chipsets and don’t draw much power, slap some spinning rust in there for storage and you’re all set. Unfortunately they’ve basically gone up by US 400 in the last 6 months.
Hm Realtek has a bit of a bad rep with FreeBSD, right at the top, but I think that problem is resolved by using a Linux distro instead.
The power brick is not a good scenario for a $1000+ NAS.
But it looks like a nice little unit otherwise.
The warning section is a good call-out, because it’s one of the services where there’s a good chance your ISP won’t like it.
My opnsense router is configured to send itself as the local NTP server via DHCP and devices are configured to use it for NTP. I don’t have any time critical services like Kerberos auth though. That can give you a starting point for running NTP.