Which route did you go for your homeland, a tunnel to your services or setting up tail scale/wireguard and access them on your trailer?
Wireguard.
Dunno if Cloudflare does effective auth for the tunnel or if you have to set that up yourself, but I don’t bother trying to expose services to the internet in any way because some of this stuff was just never designed for proper web security (cough Jellyfin).
It’s still worth setting up a wildcard cert with ACME so you get nice https and a real domain.
Cloudflare has some opt-in auth. Mail-OTP is a nice balance imo: You can allowlist mail addresses per service/subdomain and set expiry for each. Then for access, you first have to enter the mail address, get the OTP and then access the service.
So, nobody without access to allowed mail addresses even gets to knock on you door.
But yeah, that’s why I think about going tail scale: why bother having something exposed when not needed?
I just think, some services might be nice to provide to friends, too - and having them connect to my tailnet for this is a bit too much friction, I guess
I’m liking self hosted NetBird atm
Just Wireguard on a router, but I’m thinking Netbird.
WG can be a bit PITA to set up, but once you do, it just works. What I would to have is more fine grained control over who goes where if I were to expose some of the services to friends.
wg-easy can greatly simplify your wireguard setup. Allows you to quickly generate access configs for friends and family on the fly (QR-codes, too). You still get access to post-up/-down hooks if you want tp create a more specialised deployment.
Both.
I have a free vps providing me a public IPv4 address, connected to my opnsense router via tailscale, and use a simple port forward from the VPs to the router’s tailscale IP.
I have certain port/connections coming in either via the tailscale IP or my external IPv6 address all forwarded to my internal Caddy reverse proxy which itself is only running IPv4.
And I use cloudflare for my dynamic DNS resolution of my domain. A records are my public VPS IPv4 and AAAA are my own public IPv6 addresses respectively.
If/when I change to a service provider that doesn’t use CGnat for IPv4, I can stop doing the forwarding from my VPS.
That’s so we can stream music/video without needing to use the VPN.
But, I also run tailscale on my phone, so I can do admin stuff remotely from it, albeit painfully, on this small screen when things break. 🤣
I am very happy with Tailscale
Wireguard
Netbird via a free cloud VM. Works great.
Nice, I’ll look into that!
Who provides free cloud VM?
This is the way
tailscale. works perfectly, the only problem is needing a google acc for login
And that years back they moved their servers from Canada to the US. That’s when I dropped TS and just did wireguard by hand.
You can use GitHub.
That’s not really a solution.
the only problem is needing a google acc for login
You can use e-mail now.
No, you cannot. Putting in your emails just redirects to the identity provider you used when signing up. If you try to create an account you’ll see that email’s not a option.
is it possible to switch to email from my google acc tied account? or do i need to create a new one?
I haven’t looked into it yet, I’m in the same position of using Google to login.
I just noticed that the login page changed.
I believe registration is limited to a third party/OIDC. The login page is different to sign-up
third party/OIDC.
Ah, that makes sense
I have wireguard, it’s supported by my router (Fritzbox).
Nice, I have to take a look if mine supports it, too!
same here, took me 7m to set this up on OPNsense with FritzBox
I do run wireguard on my router, but the main reason is ad blocking, not hiding services. Most services are publicly exposed.
Nice, I thought about using wireguard as a private VPN, too. Having my pihole block my mobile data on the go would be neat
Pangolin on a vps.
When I looked into it first, Pangolin seemed a bit overwhelming.
Is it hard to set up?
No, ridiculously easy with docker.
Then it follows the same principles as cloud flare. Create a site (vpn endpoint), get a docker snippet for a newt (what they call the vpn connector), paste it in the docker compose on your Homeserver and see it come up in the Webinterface.
Then you create a public resource and point it to said site and give it a url.
Done.
Ask me if you have questions
Cool, do you get any auth and/or ingress protection?
With cloudflare, you get some auth options, can block AI crawlers (that get recognized…) etc for free
Yes there is auth on by default for resources. You can use real accounts that need to be created or passwords or pins. And I think some id providers.
isn’t it awesome? i am scared to update it too far for an unknown reason
It’s opensoursrso we should be able to roll back.
How about both? I run the evil Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust with Tailscale as an overlay on the server.
I’m a bit stumped, what do you gain from this setup?
Or do you mean just running some services through the tunnel for easy access and “hide” others behind tailscale?
what do you gain from this setup?
- Defense in Depth
- Network segmentation
- Fallback
Pangolin on a free Oracle VPS.
is there a bandwidth/throughput limit on Oracle VPS?
Not that I’ve noticed.
Something like 10TB. I’m an incredibly heavy user and I’d have to quadruple all of my usage, including home, to hit it.
Yes it’s 10TB.
I nearly hit the cap once when I first testing sunshine/moonlight to see how much bandwidth my set up could do and kinda FOMO for the steam deck hype.
It’s like 150 mb/s and works so well (for the kind of games I play) that I forgot the egress cap and just play for like a weeks even in the house, I realized and stop at ~ 9TB. My usual usage don’t even hit a TB most of the time lol.
- option 3: self-host Netbird control plane
- option 4: use Netbird’s reverse proxy
Headscale on fly.io
