I have a bunch of services running on my LAN, mostly from a single Debian machine. I access them at URLs like http://devicename.lan:portnumber. I would like to change to http://servicename.devicename.lan.

How it works now: The router (openwrt) sets a static IP per device and the port number is selected by the application or system unit running it.

What is the absolute simplest way to accomplish this? I don’t mind if it is managed by the router or by the server machine itself. Hoping for something that can be configured with a text file or web interface or other basic mathod.

These sevices are private, just for me and I have no plans to ever access them externally. I have so far avoided any certificates or SSL or other stuff. I don’t use docker and would rather not get into it right now. I like my domain name setup how it is with fake local domains.

Hoping this could be possible without making a whole project out of it.

  • Danitos@reddthat.comEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    I have that exact setup. Let’s suppose you want to use layzer.lan as your domain. The way I did it:

    1. Make a DNS record that maps *.layzer.lan to your private IP (let’s say it’s is 192.168.0.10). You can do this by either manually editing your local DNS resolver config file, or hosting a DNS server and adding a a new entry. I did the later, and chose AdGuard for that. Either option will make your PC underestand that going to any subdomain *.layzer.lan means going to 192.168.0.10.

    2. Use a reverse proxy. I use nginx-proxy-manager, and added a proxy host for each service you want to access with the link. For example, for my Immich server that is running in port 30041, I added a proxy host such that http://immich.layzer.lan/ takes you to http://192.168.0.10:30041/. Ports 80 and 443 have to be free for nginx to take. You can also add https support from here, and it’s very easy to do if you have bough a real domain.

    Offtopic; I just noticed that on my Lemmy Android client you appear as laserjet, but on web you appear as layzerjeyt lol. Any idea why?