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Ways to Expose Services Publicly
I want to expose my services publicly on my own domain name, how would you guys do that?
I have seen people using Cloudflare, but I don’t want to use Cloudflare out of principle. I have also seen stuff on caddy and frp that I’ve done some rough researching.
What do you guys do?
Replying to @pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
For those of us behind double NAT (CGNAT) forwarding ports is not an option as we do not control forwarding on the second gateway. This will limit you to any of the solutions that include a device outside your network with a public port that tunnels traffic into your server.
Replying to @ArborNode@lemmy.shutes.org
I’m not behind CGNAT/double NAT but I’m curious, can you use IPv6 to bypass that?
Replying to @matron1049@lemmy.dbzer0.com
To some degree yes. I ran an experiment to see and found there is just too much of the existing internet infrastructure not implementing IPV6 for this to be reliable. For instance, you can’t use it for email intake because only 2 major players do IPV6.
You still get dynamic assignments from the ISP and have to automate keeping your AAAA records up to date.
The short answer is, it depends. For what OP is doing here, I expect it would work.
If anyone else has messed with this, I’d love to here about it. Might be good as it’s own post.