Home Server with Nord IP Address?

[lwilley]

I've tried several times over the last x years to set up a home server, and have made it through install and set up, but have always hit the wall when trying to get dynamic ip address set up. I was going to take another stab at it, but saw that Nord will provide a static IP for a fairly reasonable monthly $. Does anyone have any experience setting up this way? I'm open to suggestions on alternatives, I keep hitting the wall with dynamic server set up and router issues. Thanks in advance!

 

[bwingbob]

If you are going to use a vpn to connect to your home services I would look into TailScale . I use tailscale to access my home server and a Raspberry PI on my boat when I am at home.

Setup was dead simple and it does not require any changes to your home router. I use it on all my devices including my private DNS server.

Bob

 

[lwilley]

If you are going to use a vpn to connect to your home services I would look into TailScale . I use tailscale to access my home server and a Raspberry PI on my boat when I am at home.

Setup was dead simple and it does not require any changes to your home router. I use it on all my devices including my private DNS server.

Bob

Thanks Bob. I’ll look into TailScale. And you have a dynamic Ip address for your home Internet connection?

 

[bwingbob]

No I do not have a dynamic ip address for my home internet, there is no need unless you want to expose these services to the general public.

Tailscale has a built in DNS for devices that are part of your tailnet. You only need a public IP address if you want your services to be available to the general public. This explains how it works. You access your services by the hostname assigned when the device is added to your tailscale network (tailnet).

Here are some videos that I found helpful when I was moving my home services to my tailscale network. I previously was using a dynamic IP address and running fail-to-ban on the public facing instance. Looking at the failtoban logs scared the crap out of me, my public server was under constant attack. Random IP address from all over the world would hit it thousands of time per day. I figured it was only a matter of time before one of these resulted in a successful hack.

PiHole as DNS with Tailscale
SSL Certificates for Private services

Good luck.