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Reminder for casual #DNS admins (like me) who are #SelfHosting : instead of sticking (or fighting) with your registrar's own #DynamicDNS service you can just choose any dynamic DNS service that fits your needs and use the generated domain name as a CNAME entry for the target domain in the zone file at your registrar...

when I want to expose an app running on my home-network:

when you are self-hosting at home, and you want to give friends access to your jellyfin, whats your preferred way of doing this? My focus is on security, but I'm not an expert on this.

Right now, what I have done is, I set up pivpn with a firewall that exposes only the jellyfin ip/port, so that other stuff on my network isn't available to connected users.

However, their whole internet traffic would go through my network now (if not split-tunneled), unless I restrict internet access, which would also be a dick move of me to people who forget to switch off the VPN 😆

I was now thinking about setting up a reverse proxy, instead of this whole VPN idea.

How is the security when I'm using a dynamic DNS, that points to my home-network, where I'm using a reverse proxy to catch the requests and expose only jellyfin? How is the security level of a reverse proxy vs vpn?

Looking forward to reading opinions and ideas!

Ok so #DynamicDNS on the very cheap, explain to me please. I can bash and such.

At the moment I'm paying DigitalOcean for a public IP address, and I now have PublicIP at home.

PublicIP at home: not sure if stable, too soon to tell, so best get the infrastructure in place, and then I can shed that monthly bill.

I'm also hosting a couple of unimportant things on it but I have been told by my new fibre isp that it's fine for me to host my private-use servers at my own address, so that's nice.

I've configured my #dynamicDNS to use Cloudflare and now I want to setup a Cloudflare Tunnel to work with #yunohost.

This bit confuses me.

1. These docs: yunohost.org/en/dns_config say that I need to add these details to my DNS

But if I am using Tunnel, do I still need to configure these DNS records?

2. If #yunohost is being installed on sub.mydomain.org, do I create a CF Tunnel "network" or "application"?

yunohost.orgDNS zone configuration | Yunohost DocumentationYunohost Documentation