Comment on [question] Help me access my local homeserver using a public domain name
slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Which can not be 192.168.X.X
read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address#Private_addresse…
slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.