On Oct 26, 2023, jeremy ardley wrote:
> 
> On 26/10/23 07:24, David Wright wrote:
> > > Or if you already have a domain, you can use a subdomain. eg. I have
> > > rail.eu.org, and at home it is depot.rail.eu.org
> > I'm not sure how that would work when my home network
> > is on a different continent from my domain's hosting.
> 
> 
> This is no problem asides from DNS.
> 
> You will have DNS records set up for your hosted service  with public IP
> addresses. It's quite straight forward to add a subdomain and assign non
> routable IP addresses to it.
> 
> Downside is it will look odd to an observer, and will leak some info about
> your internal network.
> 
> As an alternative you can still use the same naming convention but not put
> it in the public domain. This will require you to set up your own internal
> DNS service or hosts files and have DNS queries resolved locally without
> going to the external DNS server.

Indeed, split-horizon DNS is quite good for this "problem".


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