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Like, good for you, man.
But you should really keep your stuff inside the VPN and not expose things, it opens up a pile of potential risks that you don't need to have. You can still use a reverse proxy inside the VPN and use your own DNS server that spits out that internal address to your devices for your various applications. If you absolutely, positively must have something exposed directly, put it on it's own VLAN and with no access to anything you value.
I don’t even bother with the internal DNS server. I just set my A records in Cloudflare to point to the private IPs
I tired the same, but my router wants to be smart by filtering DNS responses that points to local IP. I guess whoever designed it considered it a security feature. It is a stock router from the ISP, its configuration interface is minimal, borderline to non existent.
Do the private IPs not change at all? Or can you handle that automatically?
I have next to no experience, but I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t work for me since my IP changes? Idk
Most routers have a feature to assign static IPs to a specific MAC address. You can also tell most devices to try to take a specific IP instead of using DHCP.
There are multiple ways to set it up, but it’s very possible to set a specific device to always have the same local IP, which is usually the first step to many self-hosting scenarios.
You can either set a DHCP reservation in your router, or manually set the IP on the device.
When I say private IP, I’m referring to the internal IP e.g 192.168.1.X
Means internally I just go to the domain without having to remember the IP I set.
Oooh. That makes more sense, thank you.
I somehow thought you’d meant your global IP addresses, lol
Edit: i see now they're talking about private IP, but in case you want to learn about getting a static IP for other things...
Many ISPs will give you a dynamic (changing) IP rather than a static (unchanging) IP. Just check your IP once a week for a few weeks to see if it changes.
There are some services that get around this by checking your ip regularly and updating their records automatically. This is called a dynamic DNS provider (DDNS). I used to use "noip" but since then there are quite a few like cloudflare DDNS.
Beyond that you just would want to make sure your router or whatever device is assigning IPs on your network to give a static assignment to the server. Assigning IPs is handled by a DHCP server and it would usually be your router, but if you have a pihole you might be using that as a DHCP server instead.
Between DDNS and DHCP you can make sure both your external IP and internal IP are static.
Sounds like Cloudflare tunnels. I used that for a while, until I realized I didn't want to be tied to Cloudflare.