Perhaps this is a weird question I have, but I’ve been watching some technotim videos lately and he seems to have local dns addresses for local services. Perhaps I’ve got this wrong, but if not: how would you go over doing this?
I have a pterodactyl dashboard, which I access locally using the machines IP and the port, but it would be great to have a pterodactyl.example.com domain, which isn’t accessible from other networks, but does work on my own network. I also still want some services exposed to the internet, so I’m not sure if this would work.
Okay, I’ll start with configuring pihole for DNS. If I get it, I can just use that DNS and if I need to access a service external I need to register the domain with my registrar?
Sure can. I had mine separated with service.My-domain.com and service.Local.My-domain.com If you need help let me know :)
Yes. But you should generally not expose a bunch of services to the Internet. Use a VPN to access your local network if necessary.
I’m aware of this. There are a few services I expose, but most of them are local. I just wanted to make accessing local services a bit cleaner.