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I use Tailscale with their DDNS feature that generates you a domain that resolves each of your Tailnet devices when connected. You can even run a command that generates an SSL cert for your given node and you can use that to further secure it with TLS in case you don’t want to deal with untrusted cert warnings.
This is especially useful for iPhones because they won’t keep your Tailscale VPN always on, but you can configure it so that requests to specific domains will activate and use your Tailscale VPN, which you just set to that generated one.
I was about to ask why you'd need DDNS for Tailscale, had no idea about iOS issues. Thanks!
Because even when you have static IPs it’s still nice to just use a host name, and to properly secure things with a certificate. It’s not really DDNS as much as it is plain old DNS, but it works without configuration on your part. Once you enable it, whatever the tailnet name of your device is, becomes ‘device name.yourdomain.ts.net’.