LAN Client to resolve locally?
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First time posting on this forum and relatively new homelabber, so go easy on me.
I've set up HAProxy to point to my Nextcloud from outside the LAN. I've had some similar problems, as @VioletDragon describes his issues here, however, I was able to modify my Nextcloud config file to operate over HTTPS and those issues were resolved. That said, I noticed that most of my devices on my local LAN take a long time to upload files. After running ```
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@luckyal well yeah bouncing file transfers off a proxy is going to be performance hit vs just directly connecting. If you access your nextcloud with your local IP and don't proxy - is your speed normal?
Even if proxy wasn't a performance hit - you would have the hit of just doing hairpin from your pc to pfsense, back to your machine. Unless your netcloud is on a different connection than your pc getting to pfsense.
Is your question how to get your pc to resolve whatever your local nextcloud is via fqdn, vs hitting the proxy?
Prob not going to be an issue remotely because of limited bandwidth vs local say gig speeds. Also keep in mind your prob not going to see same performance as file transfer using smb, etc.
What speed do you get when you just hit your nextcloud its local IP, vs what you see when you hit via your fqdn sending you to your wan IP to be proxied?
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@johnpoz thanks for the reply. For whatever reason my post didn't come through in its entirety. Here's the complete version
First time posting on this forum and relatively new homelabber, so go easy on me.
I've set up HAProxy to point to my Nextcloud from outside the LAN. I've had some similar problems, as @VioletDragon describes his issues here, however, I was able to modify my Nextcloud config file to operate over HTTPS and those issues were resolved. That said, I noticed that most of my devices on my local LAN take a long time to upload files. After running
nslookup mydomain.comI can see that my local nextcloud server ip resolves as my cloudflare address, not my local IP. I suspect that this is the reason for the delay as the photo upload goes through my cloudflare only to come back through my pfSense/HAProxy and back to my Nextcloud. Is there a way to set it up in such a way that avoids routing extrernally? I know that I can set this up in the nextcloud app to and point it directly to the local IP instead of my domain, but I'd like to have it "auto-detect" when I'm on my local LAN.
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just setup a host override to resolve whatever fqdn your using for your nextcloud to point to your local IP.
This assumes your clients are actually using pfsense as their dns.
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@johnpoz yes, all clients are using pfsense DNS. Any documentation/tutorials on how to set up host override? Sorry, I'm new at this.
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@luckyal You could try the following if you’re using dns resolver and you only want some of the hosts to resolve external hosts to local ip addresses:-
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/158427/solved-multi-homed-host-question?_=1627815337292
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@johnpoz this method seems to work (partially). After implementing Split DNS I have no issues accessing the server from my desktop. I can't access the server from my iPhone running iOS 14.7. If I kill wifi and connect through LTE (from outside my LAN), no problems, but it doesn't work from within the LAN. Both, my desktop and my iOS are on the same LAN subnet.
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Your phone prob not using your local dns would be my guess.. Make sure you phone is using your dns - and it is no different than any other client on your lan.
Prob has doh turned on in whatever browser your using, etc.
