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How are you making services remotely accessible? (kbin.run)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted
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I need help figuring out where I am going wrong or being an idiot, if people could point out where...

I have a server running Debian 12 and various docker images (Jellyfin, Home Assistant, etc...) controlled by portainer.

A consumer router assigns static Ip addresses by MAC address. The router lets me define the IP address of a primary/secondary DNS. The router registers itself with DynDNS.

I want to make this remotely accessible.

From what I have read I need to setup a reverse proxy, I have tried to follow various guides to give my server a cert for the reverse proxy but it always fails.

I figure the server needs the dyndns address to point at it but I the scripts pick up the internal IP.

How are people solving this?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I would want to go that appros but it feels very inconvenient having to connect to VPN every time I want to check something, also the battery drain if I stayed connected all the time

[–] WASTECH 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been using Tailscale for about 2 months now. It has a VPN-on-demand setting that I keep enabled. That way, anytime I am not on my local WiFi, it automatically connects the VPN. According to my battery health settings, Tailscale has used 5% of my battery in the last 10 days. And I am even using a Mullvad exit node, which would use even more battery.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Where is VPN in demand setting?

[–] WASTECH 1 points 7 months ago

On iOS, I tap on my profile in the upper right, and the VPN-on-demand setting is right below my account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Not sure is it same, I don't use tailscale, but using pure wireguard. In my experience battery drain is not even noticable, but staying connected is not smooth as I'd like. I tried to keep active VPN all the time, but then sometimes I just notice my internet is not working ( I have disable or restart VPN connection). It could be issue with my phone (Android), missconfig or something else, but I switched to manually enabling VPN every time I need it. Not amazing, but few clicks every now and then is more than acceptable for my use case

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

No significant battery drain for me, and I use it a lot, almost all the time.

Yea, it's a little drain, just nothing to worry about.