OP: If you're already using Caddy, why not just use a purchased domain (you can get some for a few dollars) with a DNS-01 challenge? This way you don't need to add self-signed certificates to your trust store and browsers/devices don't complain. You'll still keep your services private to your internal network, and Caddy will automatically keep all managed certificates renewed so there's no manual intervention once everything is set up.
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Re: .localhost Domains
#102When Apple's MobileMe came out I snagged the localhost@me.com email address, thinking how clever I was. But because filtering tools weren't as good back then I was never able to use it because of the truly massive amount of spam and test emails I'd get.
Thanks for the laugh. I wonder what test@gmail.com gets hahaha
Re: .localhost Domains
#103You might check out .internal instead which was recently approved [1] for local use. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.internal
Too much typing, and Chromium-based browsers don't understand it yet and try to search for mything.internal instead, which is annoying - you have to type out the whole http://mything.internal . This can be addressed by hijacking an existing TLD for private use, e.g. mything.bb :^)
eh, you can just add search domain via dhcp or static configuration and just type out http://mything/ no need to enter whole domain unless you need todo ssl
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#105BTW you can actually give every locally-hosted app a separate IP address if you want. The entire 127.0.0/24 is yours, so you can resolve 127.0.0.2, 127.0.0.3, etc as separate "hosts" in /etc/hosts or in your dnsmasq config.
Yes, this also works under macOS, but I remember there used to be a need to explicitly add these addresses to the loopback interface. Under Linux and (IIRC) Windows these work out of the box.
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#106How do JS local dev setups use nice names like `local.drizzle.studio`?
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#107How do JS local dev setups use nice names like `local.drizzle.studio`?
That is an external domain. Javascript on that site connects to the locally running drizzle service.
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#108Against much well-informed advice, I use a vanity domain for my internal network at home. Through a combination Smallstep CA, CoreDNS, and Traefik, any services I host in my Docker Swarm cluster automatically are immediately issued a signed SSL certificate, load-balanced, and resolvable. Traefik also allows me to configure authentication for any services that I may not wish to expose without such. That said, I do rec…
What's the argument against using one's own actual domain? In these modern times where every device and software wants to force HTTPS, being able to get rid of all the browser warnings is nice.
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#109How do JS local dev setups use nice names like `local.drizzle.studio`?
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#110OP: If you're already using Caddy, why not just use a purchased domain (you can get some for a few dollars) with a DNS-01 challenge? This way you don't need to add self-signed certificates to your trust store and browsers/devices don't complain. You'll still keep your services private to your internal network, and Caddy will automatically keep all managed certificates renewed so there's no manual intervention once ev…
> You'll still keep your services private to your internal network,
Is that a new thing? I heard previously that if you wanted to do DNS/domain for local network you had to expose the list external.