Comment on Can I host my own Lemmy instance on localhost?
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 year agoWouldn’t you need a publically available IP? DuckDNS is only for dynamic IP’s that is public, yes?
Comment on Can I host my own Lemmy instance on localhost?
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 year agoWouldn’t you need a publically available IP? DuckDNS is only for dynamic IP’s that is public, yes?
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.
towerful@programming.dev 1 year ago
Doesn’t work if you are on CGNAT
dog@suppo.fi 1 year ago
See: Anything that can open ports. NAT of any kind tends to not allow opening ports.
towerful@programming.dev 1 year ago
Absolutely. However I feel like the whole thread needs extra clarification, considering the question OP posed.
Dynamic DNS isn’t a magic wand in the way a Reverse Proxy over VPN is.
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.