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Need help with port forwarding and Cloudflare DNS records
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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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Currently I am using Cloudflare Tunnel to access my server remotely. But with this I'm always accessing my server through the tunnel even when I'm at home.
I don't have your specific port issue, but it sounds like the setup I have would get around your ISP port restrictions as use CloudFlare tunnels externally, LAN internally, and no ports open.
https://lemmy.ca/post/2804502
If that is a concern (I don’t see much of an issue, but everyone’s got different requirements, so no judgment here at all), then you’d probably want to setup a recursive DNS server inside your network, configure that DNS server to resolve those internal services to your intranet IP address, when it cannot resolve, it recurses to a public one (ie ISP, CloudFlare, quad 9, Google etc). Then, change your network’s DNS to that internal one, so when you’re on your network, you get internal IP address while off network you get CloudFlare tunnel routing.
I think I got it working now. The last time I tried I couldn't get it to work.