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[–] grandkaiser 87 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (41 children)

Hi, professional DNS engineer here! if anyone has any questions about the inner workings of DNS or top level domains, ask away! (THIS IS MY MOMENT)

[–] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  1. Could users set a temporary entry in their hosts file pointing the .ml domains to public IPs in order to regain access to their account if they needed to?

  2. Can Lemmy federate to an IP address directly or will the settings only accept an fqdn?

  3. Will a Lemmy instance work behind a reverse proxy.

Thanks for taking the time to answer questions.

[–] grandkaiser 5 points 2 years ago
  1. Yes. Unless there's some kind of crazy domain-level hi-jinks involved with Lemmy (I am not versed in Lemmy), pointing directly to the IP will work if you bypass it by spoofing your DNS (Hosts file, for example).
  2. I don't know how Lemmy federation works, sorry :(
  3. See #2

Sorry that I couldn't answer more of your questions.

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