I just bought aan IP KVM switch for a hundo, now heading to the store foir a case of frosty's and re-rack my servers to make room.
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I dug out an old laptop and installed Yunohost on it. I was so excited until I discovered that my ISP uses CGNAT. I'm trying to figure out what I want to do next.
I am looking at using headscale or just paying the US$10/month for a static public IP from my ISP. If I go with headscale, then it appears that I wouldn't need Yunohost.
I'm a newb at this so there's a lot I don't know yet.
You can rent a cheap VServer as well and use its static IP to forward traffic. Easiest for it would be SSH reverse tunnel. Or you could VPN it with your homelab (connection established from within your homelab).
If you don't want to rely on an external service you could as well establish a VPN server within your homelab and use IPv6 to connect to it, although the disadvantage would be, that if you're trying to connect from IPv4 networks 'outside' that wouldn't work.
Just listing some options to research. Welcome to the hobby, have fun 🤗
I'd rather not rely on an external service if possible. I'm just starting to read up on doing the whole VPN thing.
I appreciate your response and will keep your suggestions in mind as I move forward.
My ISP uses CGNAT but I can ask for a dynamic IP address for free. I sent them an email and got a reply in less than a week. I can also pay extra like 2.50€ per month or something for a fixed IP. I found that quite reasonable.
I'm thinking getting a static public IP might just be the easiest way to go. I have a pretty good ISP. Aside from sticking all the customers behind CGNAT.
Namecheap, and I guess other registrars too, has an API that you can call from your server to update your IP address in their DNS. It's super easy. No need to pay for a static IP address. At least in my case ei already use my domain for other things.
And since when is the easiest way the funnest way? :P
I don't understand how that'd work but I'll look into it. Thanks for the info!
Basically it's a URL that you call with curl. You can set up a crown job to call every day or as often as you need. The URL contains the domain name or subdomain, you dynamic public IP (not CNAT), and the API token. This way you Domain always points to your dynamic IP.
I think I get it. I'll look into after I get home from work today.
One of my drives crippled itself a few days back, not sure what caused it. Wasn't able to be resolved without a host restart which was unfortunate. SMART isn't failing and has been working fine, so I'm chalking it down to a weird Proxmox bug or something.
For sure expected I was going to need to do a rollback on an entire drive after that restart though. Still may have to if it reoccurs.
Evening is going ok, but noticed the screen saver on jellyfin isn't showing up lately.. need to investigate...
Also, watched the latest "Explaining Computers" episode today.
Following the FUTO guide, but having problems with getting mailcow going... I'll hopefully figure it out by tomorrow.
Changed my family dashboard from magic mirror to a home assistant dashboard. I'm missing some cute things, but the major functions work better, and I get some options that I didn't before.
Made some changes to my I2P router today, but otherwise all good.
Planning to host a Nix caching server, and have CI build all package and NixOS outputs on every push to git, then in turn pushing the output artifacts to the cache. Would save me a good chunk of time when tinkering with VMs that haven't seen manual updates in a while.
Only thing is, I'm not sure how to approach building and caching NixOS configs that receive agenix secrets in their input. Obviously those should not be cached...