Hey everyone. This is probably a super noob question, but I’m very much just an amateur when it comes to self-hosting.

I host several services that I access locally through 192.whatever:####, and when I occasionally need remote access, I use Tailscale and access through 100.whatever: ####. The duplicate bookmarks is mildly annoying though.

Can I just buy a personal domain, and have all my services be coolname.com:#### for both local and Tailscale access? Is that as simple a process as I want it to be?

Edit: I appreciate all the comments and I’ll probably just use Tailacale’s MagicDNS for simplicity, but one or my (unwritten, my bad) goals was to have one URL that works locally and remotely, regardless of Tailscale. I don’t leave Tailscale constantly connected because it overheats my phone (which already has terrible battery life).

  • sudo@programming.devEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    <hostname>.ts.net should automagically work whenever tailscale is on. You might have to enable something.

    If you want more specific, like sub domain names per service, you can set custom DNS records in tailscale to point to a caddy server which routes to the correct port. The caddy server doesn’t have to be the same machine as the service if its on the tailnet.

    Getting https involved is a bit more tricky. You don’t need it because its all over wireguard already, but the browser doesn’t know that and will complain. I think official tailscale can distribute ssl certificates across your tailnet but if you’re using headscale you’ll either need to do that manually or buy a domain and have caddy auth for that domain.