Hey everyone. This is probably a super noob question, but I’m very much just an amateur when it comes to self-hosting.
I host several services that I access locally through 192.whatever:####, and when I occasionally need remote access, I use Tailscale and access through 100.whatever: ####. The duplicate bookmarks is mildly annoying though.
Can I just buy a personal domain, and have all my services be coolname.com:#### for both local and Tailscale access? Is that as simple a process as I want it to be?
Edit: I appreciate all the comments and I’ll probably just use Tailacale’s MagicDNS for simplicity, but one or my (unwritten, my bad) goals was to have one URL that works locally and remotely, regardless of Tailscale. I don’t leave Tailscale constantly connected because it overheats my phone (which already has terrible battery life).
On Android (well, GrapheneOS) both return temporary failure in name resolution.
Pinging the Tailscale IP (the 100. one) returns 100% packet loss even though opening 100.whatever:#### works in a browser.
Ok, I think I am beginning to understand the issue. Can you try resolving the domain in your browser? If it’s a Firefox derivative, you can go to about:networking, and it gives you the ability to resolve a domain in the browser. Some Chrome based ones should have similar features, but YMMV.