Comment on Just another "we are all going to die" prediction

• groet@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Many people (me included) like the appeal of a self signed cert in a small homelab. You basically get certificate pinning for free after you trust the cert on all clients.

  With your idea, you either have to list a local IP in your public DNS record, or highjack your local DNS to point to the local IP. Both feel inelegant. And you have to give your NAS write access to your API key of your DNS registrar

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    With your idea, you either have to list a local IP in your public DNS record, or highjack your local DNS to point to the local IP. Both feel inelegant

    The DNS recordz for your internal servers don’t have to be public - they can be only on an internal DNS server if you want to do that. Only the _acme-challenge subdomain has to be public. Let’s Encrypt does follow CNAMEs.

    And you have to give your NAS write access to your API key of your DNS registrar

    You can use a separate DNS server just for Let’s Encrypt, as it follows CNAMEs. I use acme-dns for this. Let’s Encrypt supports IPv6-only DNS servers so I have my acme-dns instance listening on an IPv6 address in the /64 range on one of my VPSes.

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• MSBBritain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  +1 to let’s encrypt and certbot, but pro tip: remember to actually set up certbot, or your friends will laugh at you when your systems all break 6 months later…

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• BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sadly the 32bit NAS is stuck at Wheezy, Jessie if you mess around, as the kernel is too big otherwise.

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