cloudflare-ddns VS Nebula

For anyone following, this was due to user error in that DDNS was not up to date. For reference, https://github.com/timothymiller/cloudflare-ddns

If you want to reach them online, think about using something like this: https://github.com/timothymiller/cloudflare-ddns, this will automaticly update your A records. Or try Cloudflare Tunneling: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-apps

Try using this container instead. You can update the A record of your domain to your IP dynamically and use a CNAME for each subdomain so you don’t have to worry about them not resolving when your IP changes.

Can you explain the difference between that and this? https://github.com/timothymiller/cloudflare-ddns

I'm out of ideas on this one, I especially don't understand why the nginx container works and others dont. Besides that I'm interested in other solutions that don't route my whole traffic over one company and limit my traffic/what I am allowed to do and what not. Would a dynamic dns updater also work for my use case? Something like cloudflare-ddns?

My recommended roadmap for thing to host is: 1. ssh access * with certificates only and fail2ban config 2. local pihole DNS server * learn how to set up your router and devices to use pihole as DNS 3. local jellyfin * no encryption, no external access, just a simple local network service * Create a domain in pihole, that points to your local jellyfin service 4. a ddns-service like cloudflare-ddns * buy a domain and use ddns to point it to your IP 5. nginx-proxy-manager * enable port-forwarding in your router and obtain a lets-encrypt wildcard-cert for your domain * Create a docker network and add npm, jellyfin, and all other web services that you want to access via your domain * Create a proxy host for each service, give every service a unique subdomain, and use your wildcard cert to enable SSL/TLS for all your services * add all those subdomains to your ddns * use pihhole to point the subdomains to your local IP

Tailscale recently introduced funnel which is currently in beta and has bandwidth limits so it might work, but personally I'd use a dynamic DNS service like cloudflare-ddns

Nebula - Peer-to-peer overlay network. Developed and used internally by Slack. Similar to Tailscale but completely open source. Doesn't use WireGuard. Written in Go.

(I am a Nebula maintainer.) We recently merged support for gVisor-based services, although it's very new, and I don't know of much experimentation that's been done with it yet: https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/pull/965

Nebula, originally from Slack[0].

Wireguard rightly gets a lot of attention, but Nebula is a really simple and easy to deploy mesh network that is often overlooked.

It does lack a management GUI and that stuff is very much DIY.

[0] https://github.com/slackhq/nebula

Fair enough about the android mobile client... My use case only involves meshing linux appliances across various networks so we only need the nebula core binaries which are under MIT license

https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/blob/master/LICENSE

That's not at all confusing with Slack's Nebula. https://github.com/slackhq/nebula

Sounds like a bunch of your pain points are just related to needing an online CA or ICA. But, looking through the Nebula docs I don't know that it supports things like CRL addresses where you could host the CRL, or OCSP responders. Someone got support for an OCSP responder but never submitted a PR with completed code: https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/issues/72

Nebula is a scalable, cross-platform overlay networking tool focused on performance, simplicity, and security. This portable tool is equally adapted for linking a small number of computers or scaling to connect tens of thousands. It integrates encryption, security groups, certificates, and tunneling into a powerful, cohesive connectivity solution. Thanks for the recommendation go to jmeador42.

Replying to my own comment as I can no longer edit it:

The folks over at Slack had an interesting discussion regarding the the "battle of the VPNs" article published by Netmaker I sourced in my parent comment:

https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/discussions/911

Interesting. I thought recognized the logo, apparently seems to be a commercial support offering of https://github.com/slackhq/nebula and they support the "nebula" iOS app. I had been using for nebula/defined in the past.

Nebula: Is super easy to get running. It uses an interesting angle, working on the service and not just the device level. Unfortunately their NAT support seems to be still quite problematic and I am not going to maintain all those forwarded ports manually. There is a PR to support PCP but even if that ever gets applied I am not sure how well that will play with older routers. While it should be battle proven at slack, the community seems to be not that active. It still has the in-house tool that just got released.