A question re. #wireguard

When I’m away from home I usually connect to my home (US) and my server (Europe). However sometimes (not always) the connection to my home is blocked, I don’t know if it is caused by my phone company or my ISP. I blame the latter, because the connection to my european server never fails.

I wonder if there is something I can do in those cases?
I guess I could try to redirect the traffic to use the european server as a proxy, but that would make things slower the 90% of the time this isn’t a problem. Also, this would require me to switch wireguard connections manually, which is not ideal, especially if I’m driving.

Another alternative would be tailscale (maybe with headscale), but I’d rather keep my infrstructure as wireguard only.

Any ideas? cc @[email protected] @[email protected]

  • @[email protected]English
    1•6 days ago

    You can run some scripts that will update DNS resolution and reconnect if the connection goes inactive, but those aren’t going to be something you likely can do on your phone. (Though, IDK, you might could if we’re talking rooted android, but eh, I wouldn’t want to rely on it).

    Do you know WHY your connection fails? Is it JUST wireguard, is it your whole connection, does the IP change, etc? You might want to setup proper monitoring to see what exactly stops working when Wireguard does to see if it’s specific to the service, or if your whole link goes down, or if your router is crashing and rebooting or any number of other problems you could be having.