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^This^ ^is^ ^a^ ^joke,^ ^I^ ^didn't^ ^really^ ^lock^ ^myself^ ^out^
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Well, I have my server running in my parents basement, because they have fiber, and I don't.
It's not quite a 500km drive, but still a long enough distance for this scenario to be a major inconvenience.
But since I have wireguard running on their router though this specific scenario is not something that could happen to me
Wireguard is a VPN protocol, so you are able to tunnel into their router to…do what exactly?
It let's me remote into their LAN, thus bypassing the firewall
Please forgive the ignorance here. What are you trying to do? I thought you were trying to reboot an offline server. I’m probably just confused!
Well, the original post (as in the image) is about locking yourself out of a remote server by changing a firewall rule, thus needing to drive to the server to access it locally.
By using wireguard to tunnel into the router, you can remotely enter the LAN, thus bypassing the firewall, as if you were accessing the server locally.
Ohhhhh gotcha! Thanks for explaining. I think I just invented the offline part in my head lol