My #homelab server, which is accessible over the internet, stopped responding today.

[soapdog@social.soapdog.org]

My #homelab server, which is accessible over the internet, stopped responding today. I walked back home and the server was fine from inside the house. After like five minutes, it was clear what the problem was: my ISP gave me a new lease and my external IP changed.

So today I spent an hour or so and go a bash script running on a cronjob that double check to see if my DNS records match my homelab external IP and updates the DNS if they don't.

Is this high availability? No, this is sustainable technology and owning your own platforms. There is no cloud, there's a macbook pro running #linux proped against a wall.

[happyborg@fosstodon.org]

@soapdog FYI: I'm about to try setting up remote access. In preparation I set up my #OpenWrt router to update the DNS records using my domain provider's API.

I'm now planning to use #Pangolin on a cheap VPS to provide secure remote access and safe public exposure of selected services. I'm not sure if my dyn DNS solution will be needed in this scenario. We will see!
#HomeLab #HomeAssistant

[gwww@mstdn.ca]

@happyborg @soapdog pangolin seems to be like TailScale, is that right? It’s hard to tell as some of these sites are hard to compare features