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Nervous About Opening Ports... (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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...and even wondering if I really need to. I am often guilty of making that "one tweak too many", breaking a nice, working system in the process!

I have everything set up according to the best walk-throughs I can find. Have dockerized containers for Nginx Proxy Manager, Authentik and a ton of the standard *arr apps and tools (using OMV as a NAS). Have my own domain name, hosted on Cloudflare, with CNAMES set up, proxied through Cloudflare, pointing back to my main record. I can do full domain name resolution inside my home network, with working HTTPS connections to all my app web GUIs. I also have the ability to private VPN into my home network, using Wireguard, OpenVPN or IPsec.

I would probably be happy to continue to use my VPN connection to the home network when I am remote, BUT... I really would like to give Overseerr access to a couple of remote family members that have access to my Plex library (populated by Sonarr/Radarr). My finger often hovers over the Port Forwarding option on the router, but I ultimately chicken out. Am I being paranoid?? Should I just educate my family members on how to connect to my network via VPN? Anyone else made this choice? Looking for success (and maybe horror) stories before I potentially proceed.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I made a different setup due to my old ISP who give only CGNAT IP. I’ve used an VPS who’s host an Wiregaurd Sever and made a port forwarding rules to redirect port to my local machine (or other machine connected to this VPS via VPN). That a good method when you have a CGNAT IP and/or when you don’t want to give your residential IP (or want to host some thing in an IP and other in another IP has my provider sell them for 2.5 bucks one time). Now I have a full V4 IP, but I don’t switch to it has I find it more convenient to stay with that. A little plus, is if you torrenting your favorite free and legal movie your IP is hide too. The two bad thing so : latency is augmented (by 1 or 2 ms), network speed can be reduced compared to a direct connection but for plex for exemple it work like a charm.