Comment on [question] Help me access my local homeserver using a public domain name
slazer2au@lemmy.world 13 hours agoYou can’t point to 192.168.X.X that’s your local network IP address. You need to point to your public IP address
That’s not true at all. That is exactly how I have my setup. A wildcard record at Porkbun pointing to the private IP of my home server so when I am home I have zero issues accessing things.
HelloRoot@lemy.lol 13 hours ago
Which can not be 192.168.X.X
read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address#Private_addresse…
slazer2au@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
And yet, that is exactly what I am doing and it is working.
Rfc1918 address are absolutely usable with DNS in this fashion.
If I were to try to access it while I wasn’t home it absolutely wouldn’t work but that is not what I do.
HelloRoot@lemy.lol 12 hours ago
Then you don’t need to pay porkbun and can just selfhost a DNS with that entry like technitium.com/dns/
slazer2au@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
That’s true but then I would have to deal with PKI, cert chains, and DNS. When now all I need to do is get Traefik to grab a wildcard Let’s Encrypt cert and everything is peachy.