How do you guys set internal domains?

Say i dont want to type 192.168.1.100:8096 and want a url instead, say jellyfin.servername - how would I go about that? I don’t want it exposed online via reverse proxy. I don’t need certs. No port forwarding on the router.

How do I type ‘jellyfin.servername’ into a browser and being up the jellyfin dashboard?

  • @kamin@lemmy.kghorvath.comEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    You need to set up a local DNS server with a .servername zone and point your machines to it. You’d add an external DNS server like 1.1.1.1 as forwarder to allow internet traffic to still resolve.

    • novarimeOP
      0•2 years ago

      It’s the port that’s tripping me. How do I point jellyfin to that domain? It’s on docker on port 8096 - the hostname isn’t the problem, it’s the container.

      • plo
        1•2 years ago

        Ah okay. You need some sort of reverse proxy.
        I really like caddy. Using it with caddy-docker-proxy in docker-compose makes it quite nifty:

        version: '3.7'
services:
  whoami:
    image: containous/whoami
    networks:
      - caddy
    labels:
      caddy: http://whoami.mylab.home
      caddy.reverse_proxy: "{{upstreams 80}}"

networks:
  caddy:
    external: true

        Just make sure to explicitly use ‘http’ instead of ‘https’. That way it won’t try to create certificates.

    • jjakc
      0•2 years ago

      Keep in mind you still need to specify the port with this method.

      • novarimeOP
        0•2 years ago

        Yeah, how and where? In the docker compose? I have a dozem containers and is love if they were all a.server. b.server, c.server. How can I do this? Pihole DNS records don’t do anything at the port level.

        • jjakc
          1•2 years ago

          Sorry I meant in your browser. Yes dns does not point to ports.

          You would have to use some sort of reverse proxy that is only accessible from internal networks

  • finnEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    I use pihole running on an esxi server for dns. In pihole you can create local dns records which is exactly what you’re trying to do. It’s very lightweight, you can run it on about anything.

    You can also do something like this

  • asjmcguire
    1•2 years ago

    PiHole as your DNS resolver. LocalDNS mapping whatever hostname you want to whatever IP you want.
    Because I use Nginx Proxy Manager internally - then most of my hostname point to the Nginx IP address

  • @dan@upvote.auEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    You should be able to use mDNS pretty easily. Some services (like Home Assistant) support it out-of-the-box. mDNS is what powers the .local domains (eg homeassistant.local).

  • CéliaEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    You can add an entry to your /etc/hosts file for the IP part, but this cannot remove the need to specify the port number as it is unrelated to the domain/IP

  • @equidamoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0•2 years ago

    After much suffering with local zones (mainly due to stubborn devices ignoring dns servers coming via dhcp and retarded corporate vpn messing with resolv.conf) I just use xxx.local.mydomain.tld with a small script that parses the leases files and updates the data via cloud flare api.

    • @zueski@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0•2 years ago

      I ended up doing a similar thing for the same reasons, too many things ignoring my local dns. I ended up creating a subdomain for my house where all the A records had internal ips. I gave out fixed leases to the things with names though instead of dynamic dns updates.

      • @equidamoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        I have static ips for the server-ish things and few important devices too, but for the rest (swarm of shellys, esp32, etc.) I’m too lazy to maintain the list =)