I’ve not done much with external access in the past, but I’m playing with Tailscale and it’s pretty neat. Wondering if I can configure it to work like my local access does:

  1. I use Nginx Proxy Manager to set easy subdomains for my services, I.e. service.mydomain.com
  2. I use AdGuard Home and have a redirect for *.mydomain to that NPM
  3. This works great internally, which is all I’ve really used it for.
  4. I’ve got tailscale working and I can go externally to server.wackyname.ts.net:serviceport.
  5. what I’d like to do is have tailscale somehow use the same internal dns/npm info so when I’m on my tailnet service.mydomain.com still works.
  6. But no other external access, said subdomains do nothing off tailnet.
  7. Mydomain.com is an actual domain I own. General DNS is at Cloudflare right now (main domain was pointed at a hosted site previously, but that’s not needed anymore)

Any way to pull this off without a ton of complexity?

  • MacManDeluxe@infosec.pubEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    Tailscale has a NextDNS integration, so I use that to point my made-up internal domain to the Tailscale ip of my NAS. Works well with subdomains. When I’m on my local network (and not connected to Tailscale), my pihole directs the same url to the local ip.

    To clarify, when you’re external or on the tailnet, you want the Tailscale ip. On the local network, you want the local ip.

  • DecronymBEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    IP Internet Protocol
    NAS Network-Attached Storage

    3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.

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      • oktoberpaard@feddit.nlEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        By default Tailscale devices prefer the local DNS server for any hostname that’s not part of your Tailscale network, unless you’ve configured a global DNS server. There’s also the option to configure split DNS and have a different DNS server for certain domains (for example your own domain). You can also add search domains to allow short hostnames to be resolved to FQDNs of your choice.

  • iamthetot@piefed.caEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    I’m not an expert, take this with a very big grain of salt.

    But I think what you want here is for your home server tailscale to act as an exit node for your remote connection.

    This will mean that your phone for example will route traffic through your home server, using its AdGuard DNS.

    You can even set it up to conditionally use it as an exit mode, iirc.

  • stratself@lemdro.idEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    Do a DNS rewrite at AGH, but instead of the LAN IP make it the Tailscale IP of your NPM machine. Then configure AGH’s IP address as one of the global nameservers on your Tailscale admin panel

    Delete all A/AAAA records on Cloudflare, only use it for registrar purposes and the occassional certs authentication.

    • chazwhiz@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Do a DNS rewrite at AGH, but instead of the LAN IP make it the Tailscale IP of your NPM machine

      Wouldn’t that prevent any devices that don’t have tailscale from using it even locally?

      • stratself@lemdro.idEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Yes.

        If you want to access your NPM stuff on both Tailscale and LAN, either:

        • Advertise a subnet route for your LAN range, configure Tailscale devices to use it, and use your LAN IP on the AGH rewrite, or
        • Split Horizon: Have your DNS respond with a Tailnet IP when it’s queried from the Tailnet range, and respond with a LAN IP when queried from LAN. AGH cannot do this, but other software like Technitium can