Submitted 7 months ago by umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml to selfhosted@lemmy.world
I want to host a small game server for friends and myself in my home but doesn’t want to open up the firewall. Any tunneling solutions supports UDP? Thnaks.
Most VPNs use UDP. So set up a wireguard, tailscale or openvpn.
But you still need to “open up the firewall”. UDP still works on ports the same way as TCP. I do agree however, that exposing a VPN port is more secure than exposing a port for a game server, as you don’t know about the security of that server software.
I don’t think you need to open any ports for a mesh network to transmit UDP packets. It’s a full virtual network.
If you want any system to connect to you, you need to open a port. You don’t need to do that for outgoing connections (the OS and your router will automatically open ports for the return connection). So if everybody connects to one central system, nobody needs to (explicitly) open any ports (except for the central connection point)
Tailscale/headscale are always recommended and they are good options but I want to recommend netbird as an alternative. This is what I have currently setup and it’s fantastic.
Wireguard/Tailscale? (I’m not sure how well they do with latency).
Isn’t tailscale serve only do tcp?
Tailscale and Netbird are what you are looking for
i2p also can do it if you need privacy
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
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DetachablePianist@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
You might try ZeroTier. You’ll each need a tiny client app, but its super easy to install and setup, and extremely secure. Free to use with up to 25 devices.
WIPocket@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Can confirm, very easy to setup clients. And since its not a VPN but a VLAN, you wont run into problems connecting between different clients.
umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
For non tech savy people, is ZeroTier easier to config than Tailscale? I tried Tailscale and everyone needs a account before start playing, which can be a fraction.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Proprietary solution, no thanks