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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cloudns.net
dynu.comcloudflare, aws, duckdns all offer dynamic dns as well.
I use afraid.
Thanks so much!
Spot on who I was looking for!
Been using these guys for years.
https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling or a VPN like tailscale
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.
I appreciate your help!
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.
It would be cool if I can get the bash to do this
Linux instructions:
Relevant commands:
nordvpn settings
- lists out settingsnordvpn set [SettingName] [NewValue]
- sets the relavent settingnordvpn whitelist add subnet [Mask]
- whitelists the specified subnet to allow in traffic originating therenordvpn d
andnordvpn c
- to disconnect and connectifconfig
- gets your current IP
Bringing it all together:
-
Run
ifconfig
to get your current IP. It’s most likely 192.168.1.xxx -
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) -
Run
nordvpn settings
to view all settings and verify they look right, you should see your subnet in the whitelist section now -
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:
- Run
nordvpn set analytics disabled
to disable analytics