Comment on Can I host my own Lemmy instance on localhost?

• meldrik@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wouldn’t you need a publically available IP? DuckDNS is only for dynamic IP’s that is public, yes?

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  • dog@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Works with anything that can open ports. DuckDNS works by pinging their service from anywhere to update the target IP for the subdomain.

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    • towerful@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Doesn’t work if you are on CGNAT

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      • dog@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        See: Anything that can open ports. NAT of any kind tends to not allow opening ports.

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      • meldrik@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yea, that is also what I thought. To bypass this, you would need something like Cloudflare Tunnels or setup a VPN on a VPS, that redirects traffic to your homeserver.

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