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I'm having some difficulty accessing my overseerr and calibre servers from outside the local network. I'm running NordVPN and I can access them when I don't have the VPN on, but I run it all the time, so under that condition I can't access my libraries remotely.

Edit: duh. I'm on Linux Mint 22.1

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Spot on who I was looking for!

[โ€“] TerraRoot 3 points 3 weeks ago

Been using these guys for years.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

freedns.afraid.org
no-ip.com
cloudns.net
dynu.com

cloudflare, aws, duckdns all offer dynamic dns as well.

I use afraid.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks so much!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I appreciate your help!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

In case Tailscale doesn't work, there's tons of other options. The one I use to set up my Foundry sessions woth my players is Zgrok. Works as good as ngrok and tailscale while being more generous with data limits.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

NordVPN can be set to allow LAN traffic through. So, if you setup port forwarding on your router, which it sounds like you already did, it will then allow that LAN traffic in.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It would be cool if I can get the bash to do this

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Linux instructions:

Relevant commands:

  • nordvpn settings - lists out settings
  • nordvpn set [SettingName] [NewValue] - sets the relavent setting
  • nordvpn whitelist add subnet [Mask] - whitelists the specified subnet to allow traffic originating there
  • nordvpn d and nordvpn c - to disconnect and connect
  • ifconfig - gets your current IP

Bringing it all together:

  1. Run ifconfig to get your current IP. It's most likely 192.168.1.xxx

  2. Run nordvpn whitelist add subnet 192.168.1.0/24 to add your subnet to the whitelist (change the first three sections of the subnet to match what your IP is in the first command if it is different)

  3. Run nordvpn settings to view all settings and verify they look right, you should see your subnet in the whitelist section now

  4. Run nordvpn c to reconnect and apply your new settings

Now LAN connections can reach your computer, even while it is connected to the VPN. For incomming WAN connections, verify port forwarding is setup on your router to point to the computer.

Optional:

  1. Run nordvpn set analytics disabled to disable analytics