How do you guys set internal domains?

Say i dont want to type 192.168.1.100:8096 and want a url instead, say jellyfin.servername - how would I go about that? I don’t want it exposed online via reverse proxy. I don’t need certs. No port forwarding on the router.

How do I type ‘jellyfin.servername’ into a browser and being up the jellyfin dashboard?

  • equidamoid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    After much suffering with local zones (mainly due to stubborn devices ignoring dns servers coming via dhcp and retarded corporate vpn messing with resolv.conf) I just use xxx.local.mydomain.tld with a small script that parses the leases files and updates the data via cloud flare api.

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      1 year ago

      Using a real domain also lets you get Let’s Encrypt TLS certificates for the subdomains, by using DNS challenges.

      I do the same thing - I use xxx.int.example.com and xxx.vpn.example.com for internal IPs and VPN IPs respectively.

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      1 year ago

      I ended up doing a similar thing for the same reasons, too many things ignoring my local dns. I ended up creating a subdomain for my house where all the A records had internal ips. I gave out fixed leases to the things with names though instead of dynamic dns updates.

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        1 year ago

        I have static ips for the server-ish things and few important devices too, but for the rest (swarm of shellys, esp32, etc.) I’m too lazy to maintain the list =)