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Can you have local reverse proxies? (reddthat.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Perhaps this is a weird question I have, but I've been watching some technotim videos lately and he seems to have local dns addresses for local services. Perhaps I've got this wrong, but if not: how would you go over doing this?

I have a pterodactyl dashboard, which I access locally using the machines IP and the port, but it would be great to have a pterodactyl.example.com domain, which isn't accessible from other networks, but does work on my own network. I also still want some services exposed to the internet, so I'm not sure if this would work.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yup. You can run both local amd external services off the same proxy, at least with traefik and I assume others. Alternatively you could use traefik to solely for local services and Cloudflare zero trust tunnel for external. I think his traefik video covers it? If not, it covers some part.

The other part is that you need pihole setup to serve local DNS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Okay, I'll start with configuring pihole for DNS. If I get it, I can just use that DNS and if I need to access a service external I need to register the domain with my registrar?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes. But you should generally not expose a bunch of services to the Internet. Use a VPN to access your local network if necessary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm aware of this. There are a few services I expose, but most of them are local. I just wanted to make accessing local services a bit cleaner.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Sure can. I had mine separated with service.My-domain.com and service.Local.My-domain.com If you need help let me know :)