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  • From your text I understand you are not a really tech savvy person and yiu are really struggling with all the service and configuration involved.

    If you want a simple tip, stick to tailscale, it is a vpn and will protect all your services because you will not have access from internet. It is pretty safe and the configuration is trivial.

    The obvious drawback is that you won’t have internet access without installing the vpn, which depending the use case can be a deal breaker.

    Honestly, a proper configured nginx with certificates and strong password are reasonable secure when there is not any misconfiguration. But if you are in doubt stick to tailscale.

    Good luck :)






  • Take wiht a bit (or a lot) of salt what I am gonna say. Because undoubtedly I am. Missing something here.

    But if what you a already say is true probably you are not restricting anything. The recommended way to do so is with a firewall rule (probably in your router).

    You are extending the subnet definition beyond the 16 bits. This can create problems and I doubt that your router will block anything if something crafted is received from Internet.

    But of course, being the extremely big address space your are probably safe.

    I any case, with a firewall rule in your router allowing only the proxy to go receive connections, you should be good and more standard conform


  • This is not the Nat functionality as people associated with ipv4, and certainly it is not showing the drawback of allowing the communication only when the NATed client started the communication.

    Even if they are alike they are not the same.

    I reaffirm myself here. It is possible to have full ipv6 communication and providers do not have cgnats. It is your easiest and most uncomplicated solution with almost nothing to install to make it work.

    And in addition, I have to say that I don’t see any benefit in using such functionality at home. If someone can illustrate me a use case I would be thankful










  • As a friendly suggestion: Don’t rely on wireguard alone, try instead services like tailscale or zerotier because if you set up ur server in residential zone, there are huge chances that you will hit some cg-nat in other cities / countries.

    Those are nasty problems that wireguard is not able to solve but those programs can

    Apart of that this is the zero risk approach and it should be the default one.