Would it be possible for me to make comments to other instances etc?

Solved: I can’t, it would only work with a public domain.

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    Wouldn’t you need a publically available IP? DuckDNS is only for dynamic IP’s that is public, yes?

    • dog@suppo.fiEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Works with anything that can open ports. DuckDNS works by pinging their service from anywhere to update the target IP for the subdomain.

        • dog@suppo.fiEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          See: Anything that can open ports. NAT of any kind tends to not allow opening ports.

          • towerful@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Absolutely. However I feel like the whole thread needs extra clarification, considering the question OP posed.
            Dynamic DNS isn’t a magic wand in the way a Reverse Proxy over VPN is.

        • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Yea, that is also what I thought. To bypass this, you would need something like Cloudflare Tunnels or setup a VPN on a VPS, that redirects traffic to your homeserver.

    • SamajGaya@feddit.rocksEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Duckdns is pretty much a service that offers free domain names… that could point to any public IP. (I have seen setups where local IPs are used just for HTTPS). So its good for instances as HTTPS can be achieved without buying domain name.