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Best way to get IPv4 connectivity to my self-hosted services (infosec.pub)

submitted 14 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, I live in Germany and only have public IPv6. My address changes only very, very rarely and has never changed in the time I've been self-hosting.

I also have a very small, pretty cheap VPS with static IPv4/IPv6 – which would seem like a great fit for some sort of tunneling/proxy setup. Now comes the question: What/how should I use it? I would like to not have the additional latency for IPv6 enabled hosts, can I just setup a reverse proxy for IPv4? Would Tailscale work for my usecase, what are some resources you found useful when using it?

Currently, I'm just hosting everything IPv6-only and hoping my address never changes, but that does not work for everyone, as especially many new buildings with fiber optic connections still only have IPv4 (strangely).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This. Using simple ssh tunneling with port forwarding in a similar scenario. Working flawlessly with zero maintenance for 5 years and counting. Very reliable

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Not really reliable, much less than wire guard. If your connection is unstable ssh not the best option. Autossh make it better, but still after a forced disconnection ssh will take a while to drop and reconnect. Wire guard is much better. I moved from ssh+autossh to wireguard and wished I did that sooner.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Fair comment, I should qualified my answer: I use an ssh tunnel with auto-reconnect option, wrapped inside a systemd service. In all this years, I still have to run into a problem that wasn't external (server down, no internet at home etc) I agree that wireguard is the proper solution however it requires a lot of extra configuration and support in both ends, which now is prevalent but not so much 5+ years ago. Also for a single port solution, ssh is so much simpler, practical and reliable, you only need an ssh user at the other end.

ExecStart=/usr/bin/ssh -NT -o ServerAliveInterval=60 -o ServerAliveCountMax=3 -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -R localhost:YOUR_PORT:localhost:YOUR_PORT SOME_USER@YOUR_SERVER