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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Why are you having to update your DNS records when you add a new service? Just set up a wildcard A record to send *.myserver.com to the reverse proxy and you never have to touch it again. If your DNS doesn't let you set wildcard A records, then switch to a better DNS.

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Not OP but a lot of people probably use pi-hole which doesn't support wildcards for some inane reason

[–] Klajan@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

It does support it, you just have to add it to dnsmasq. I have it Setup under misc.dnsmasq_lines like so:

address=/proxy.example.com/192.0.0.100
local=/proxy.example.com/

Then I have my proxied service reachable under service.proxy.example.com

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That's my case. I send every new subdomain to my nginx IP on pi-hole and then use nginx as a reverse proxy

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

That was my exact setup as well until I switched to a different router which supported both custom DNS entries and blocklists, thereby making the pi-hole redundant

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I run opnsense, so I need to dump pi-hole. But I don't have the energy right now to do that.

Pi-Hole was pretty straightforward at the time and I did not look back since then. Annoying, but easy.

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

I use a MikroTik Router and while I do love the amount of power it gives me, I very quickly realized that I jumped in at the deep end. Deeper than I can deal with unfortunately.

I did get everything running after a week or so but I absolutely had to fight the router to do so.

Sometimes less is more I guess

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 20 hours ago

I switched to Technitium and I've been pretty happy. Seems very robust, and as a bonus was easy to use it to stop DNS leaks (each upstream has a static route through a different Mullvad VPN, and since they're queried in parallel, a VPN connection can go down without losing any DNS...maybe this is how pihole would have handled it too though).

And of course, wildcards supported no problem.