I've got Immich working great on Unraid, but if I'm on my network I can't really use it. Just fails to resolve the dns. I looked it up and it's that my router doesn't support hairpin or something. It's a Aginet hb810. I found a workaround in the Immich client where you can add a second entry that's network specific, but it doesn't seem to work very reliably.

What are my options?

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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

The term you would search for here is "split-horizon DNS". Assuming you're using a real domain name with hosts, you want a DNS server inside that resolves the LAN address, and the outside DNS server for everyone else resolves your WAN address (which presumably you reverse-proxy to inside host).

Even better is to not expose the service at all from the outside, use a VPN like Tailscale, and then use their MagicDNS service on the tailscale network to keep everything behind the firewall.

Every service you expose to the outside is more attack surface.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    On my unraid router, this is called DNS override

    Immich.example.ca resolves to a local ip when you search for within the network. For every DNS entry on cloudflare for my domain, I have an equivalent one on my router and pihole that points to the local domain

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