I’m pretty new to selfhosting and homelabs, and I would appreciate a simple-worded explanation here. Details are always welcome!

So, I have a home network with a dynamic external IP address. I already have my Synology NAS exposed to the Internet with DDNS - this was done using the interface, so didn’t require much technical knowledge.

Now, I would like to add another server (currently testing with Raspberry Pi) in the same LAN that would also be externally reachable, either through a subdomain (preferable), or through specific ports. How do I go about it?

P.S. Apparently, what I’ve tried on the router does work, it’s just that my NAS was sitting in the DMZ. Now it works!

  • AlleroOPEnglish
    1·
    7 hours ago

    I do remember that and take quite a few precautions. Also, nothing that can be serioisly used against me is in there.

    • hietsu@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      I have wrestled with the same thing as you and I think nginx reverse proxy and subdomains are reasonably good solution:

      • nothing answers from www.mydomain.com or mydomain.com or ip:port.
      • I have subdomains like service.mydomain.com and letsencrypt gives them certs.
      • some services even use a dir, so only service.mydomain.com/something will get you there but nothing else.
      • keep the services updated and using good passwords & non-default usernames.
      • Planned: instant IP ban to anything that touches port 80/443 without using proper subdomain (whitelisting letsencrypt ofc), same with ssh port and other commonly scanner ones. Using fail2ban reading nginx logs for example.
      • Planned: geofencing some ip ranges, auto-updating from public botnet lists.
      • Planned: wildcard TLS cert (*.mydomain.com) so that the subdomains are not listed anywhere maybe even Cloudflare tunnel with this.

      Only fault I’ve discovered are some public ledgers of TLS certs, where the certs given by letsencrypt spill out those semi-secret subdomains to the world. I seem to get very little to no bots knocking my services though so maybe those are not being scraped that much.

      • AlleroOPEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        Pretty solid! Though insta-ban on everything :80/443 may backfire - too easy to just enter the domain name without subdomain by accident.