Comment on What are your VPN recommendations for accessing self-hosted applications from the outside?
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day agoIs wire guard a service you pay for? Otherwise how does wire guard in your home machine not need your router to forward ports to it? And then the remote client need to be pointed at your home’s external IP?
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
.WireGuard is free. Obviously my instructions didn’t go into detail about specifically how to set everything up. Port forwarding is required. Knowing your servers external IP address is required. You also need electricity, an ISP subscription, a home server (preferably running Linux), so on and so forth. This is /c/selfhosted After all.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yeah that’s fine. The steps were so simple I figured they could work without router config changes if they made some kind of connection handshake in a third part service’s server.
But given all that, I wonder if it makes sense to look into if your router has its own vpn server (or flash the firmware with one that does.)
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Some servers even run WireGuard :) like for instance Ubiquiti. Personally I’d rather run it on my own server though because ubiquiti doesn’t have easy IAC features.