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  • This seems super overcomplicated. What I would do is put all the subdomains on the public DNS, let HTTP(S) through the firewall for the respective hosts, deny everything from outside of your local network on the http server that isn’t under the HTTP challenge path and then run the HTTP challenge as you would for a public site.

    Then you can get certs, everyone outside trying to access will get 403, and inside the network you can access as normal.

    Of course you’ll have to trust your http server’s ACL for that, but I’m just going to assume servers like nginx (which I use) have a reliable implementation.







  • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.detoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldMy thoughts on docker
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    16 days ago

    Yeah, when I got started I initially put everything in Docker because that’s what I was recommended to do, but after a couple years I moved everything out again because of the increased complexity, especially in terms of the networking, and that you now have to deal with the way Docker does things, and I’m not getting anything out of it that would make up for that.

    When I moved it out back then I was running Gentoo on my servers, by now it’s NixOS because of the declarative service configuration, which shines especially in a server environment. If you want easy service setup, like people usually say they like about Docker, I think it’s definitely worth a try. It can be as simple as “services.foo.enable = true”.

    (To be fair NixOS has complexity too, but most of it is in learning how the configuration language which builds your operating system works, and not in the actual system itself, which is mostly standard except for the store. A NixOS service module generates a normal systemd service + potentially other files in the file system.)



  • Since jujutsu is Git-compatible it has very much replaced Git for me and is what I’m using for everything now. Its workflow is so good and miles ahead of Git.

    I was trying out Pijul for a while before that and while it has a lot of great ideas and has a lot of potential due to the way its foundations work its interface is way too janky right now and missing features and nothing I’ve reported or the many changes I’ve submitted have been fixed/pulled since March. I’d really like it to be good but alas…








  • the NC is rarely available or only for a few seconds which screws my automatic backup of photos. This is annoying. I think it is because there are two conflicting routes to the NC, one via the internal IPv4 and the other over the publicly available IPv6.

    Sounds unlikely tbh. A TCP connection is established for a specific target address which stays the same for the duration of that connection, and there is pretty much no interaction between IPv4 and IPv6 in the first place. Have you run Wireshaek? Is it the same problem from other clients in the network? Have you tried explicitly connecting to the IPv6 address and the IPv4 address to see if it’s a specific one that’s not working?


  • But it actually doesnt. Most public wifis or other residential networks dont seem to give me external access to my Nextcloud, ironically, my mobile network via phone does.

    A lot of those networks are run by boomers who don’t care about IPv6 or don’t want to set it up because (insert excuse from IPv6 Bingo) or non-tech people whose router doesn’t turn it on automatically. So yeah, that is unfortunately something you have to expect and work around.

    Problem 1 seems to be best solved with renting the cheapest VPS I can find and then…build a permanent SSH tunnel to it? Use the WireGuard VPN of my router? Some other kind of tunnel to expose a public IPv4? Iirc, VPS are billed by throughput, I am not sure if I might run into problems here, but the only people that use it are my gf and me, and when not at home, mostly for the CalDAV stuff.

    You don’t even need a tunnel. Just a proxy on a VPS that runs on IPv4 and connects to the IPv6 upstream. Set the AAAA record to the real host and the A record to the VPS. Assuming you actually get a static prefix which you should, but some IPv4-brained ISPs don’t and you get a rotating prefix, in which case it’s probably more annoying.

    I do this too, mine runs on a free Oracle Cloud ARM VPS.