EDIT: Thanks for the info guys! Very excited to get this all set up
At the moment I have a bunch of self-hosting services hosted in the cloud. I plan to get rid of my cloud resources entirely and run stuff on some server hardware I acquired recently but my ISP doesn’t give me a static IP and I’m behind a NAT or whatever it’s called (the thing that makes multiple people’s home connections be behind a single public IP) so I don’t think I can even expose directly to the internet. So my plan is to have a very small and cheap server at a data center and proxy my actual server behind that.
My question is, is there a way that I can set things up so that the same domain can connect directly to the server when I’m at home, and to the proxy when I’m not? The difference would be what connection I’m connected to (my home WiFi vs 5G/others’ WiFi). I’m thinking I could maybe run DNS on the server and configure my router to use that as a DNS server, but wouldn’t my phone/laptop cache DNS entries? So it’d still try to connect to the local IP even when I’m out.
This is the perfect opportunity to set up a pihole. Its primary purpose is to block ads network wide but since it is essentially a DNS with a block list you can also set custom dns-entries.
Way ahead of you, was looking at dnsmasq earlier then pi-hole, then turns out pi-hole has dnsmasq rolled into it now so I don’t even have to configure separate services!
Very good, that makes things much easier. Has been a while since I used pihole but when I did I used pihole to serve the internal IPs.