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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 months agoDo you have any decent options for routing a DNS name to a local machine behind NAT? I usually do this with a VPS, but I really don’t like the terms at a lot of VPS services (forced arbitration everywhere).
thorbot@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I paid namecheap for a domain, it was $50 for 8 years. So I guess I lied, I did pay for that ages ago. Then, I use my UniFi Dream Machine firewall to route traffic to my Plex and game servers within my network. It’s great because I have Minecraft.mydomain.com, files.mydomain.com and palworld.mydomain.com that people use to access things.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Yeah, I don’t have access to dynamic DNS because I’m behind a NAT (ISP gives me a 10.x.x.x address). I can pay for a static IP, but I’d really rather not.
I was hoping there was something like Tailscale where I could forward ports over a VPN and use the VPN host’s IP for my DNS. I can kinda get there with Tailscale’s public DNS, but I can’t use my own (well, I could use a CNAME, but I’d use their certs).
Anyway, it’s a temporary thing since I should be getting a new municipal fiber connection soon.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 months ago
CGNAT should be illegal.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Yeah, I can set up a VPN pretty easily, it’s just annoying that I need to do it.
ahal@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Namecheap supports ddns out of the box too, no additional service required. You just need a cron job that calls their API to update your IP periodically.
thorbot@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ah perfect! Thanks for the additional info