Is there a service that gives you a web address that serves as a IP address for your home laptop or computer? I seem to remember something like that being mentioned on some previous post.

@lichengeese@lemmy.zip

http://www.duckdns.org/

@Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Spot on who I was looking for!

@TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works

Been using these guys for years.

@miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com

freedns.afraid.org
no-ip.com
cloudns.net
dynu.com

cloudflare, aws, duckdns all offer dynamic dns as well.

I use afraid.

@Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Thanks so much!

@iii@mander.xyz

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling or a VPN like tailscale

@Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I appreciate your help!

@Moonguide@lemmy.ml

In case Tailscale doesn’t work, there’s tons of other options. The one I use to set up my Foundry sessions woth my players is Zgrok. Works as good as ngrok and tailscale while being more generous with data limits.

BombOmOm

NordVPN can be set to allow LAN traffic through. So, if you setup port forwarding on your router, which it sounds like you already did, it will then allow that LAN traffic in.

@Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com

It would be cool if I can get the bash to do this

BombOmOm

Linux instructions:

Relevant commands:

nordvpn settings - lists out settings
nordvpn set [SettingName] [NewValue] - sets the relavent setting
nordvpn whitelist add subnet [Mask] - whitelists the specified subnet to allow in traffic originating there
nordvpn d and nordvpn c - to disconnect and connect
ifconfig - gets your current IP

Bringing it all together:

Run ifconfig to get your current IP. It’s most likely 192.168.1.xxx
Run nordvpn whitelist add subnet 192.168.1.0/24 to add your subnet to the whitelist (change the first three sections of the subnet to match what your IP is in the first command if it is different)
Run nordvpn settings to view all settings and verify they look right, you should see your subnet in the whitelist section now
Run nordvpn c to reconnect and apply your new settings

Now LAN connections can reach your computer, even while it is connected to the VPN. For incomming WAN connections, verify port forwarding is setup on your router to point to the computer.

Optional:

Run nordvpn set analytics disabled to disable analytics

@Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Is there a service that gives you a web address that serves as a IP address for your home laptop or computer? I seem to remember something like that being mentioned on some previous post.

Is there a service that gives you a web address that serves as a IP address for your home laptop or computer? I seem to remember something like that being mentioned on some previous post.

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