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What path does data take when connecting to a domain at my address? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I have some subdomains that go to my home address (I know I should put it through a VPS first but I'll get to that when I have time).

If I connect to example.domain.tld and DNS records point back to my own IP, where does that data go to reach back to my device?

Edit: thanks for the responses everyone

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[–] 1 point 2 months ago

I had issues with that recently, I had a few of my internal services set to resolve internally, but pihole was making a mess of them and returning IPv6 addresses in addition to the IPv4 internal addresses. And then browsers would try use the broken ipv6 address and fail. I just happily rely on hairpinning now, it hardly makes a difference in the scheme of things.

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