shiftymccool

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shiftymccool OP ,

I'm not using self-signed anymore, I'm getting them from Cloudflare via DNS challenge

shiftymccool OP ,

If I use the Cloudflare origin server certs, the browser shows insecure and the message is "certificate not trusted" which is the same message as self-signed, if I'm not mistaken. I'm not sure what other details are relevant as I'm still new-ish to the networking portion of this home server thing. I'm happy to answer any questions if you suspect something.

shiftymccool OP ,

Barring any Traefik tricks that allows me to accomplish what I'm after, I was thinking of going with your "third" option of just letting it use Cloudflare for everything but, I had to check with the experts first before just doing it.

I have some apps that complain or, in one case, flat out doesn't work if the cert is invalid. I've been working around it (sort of) but it would be nice to have it set up "correctly" for once. If routing all traffic through Cloudflare is the answer, so be it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

shiftymccool OP ,

You're right, I'm using the cloudflare DNS challenge to get let's encrypt certs. I'm definitely hitting traefik. I'm testing by turning the Wi-Fi on my phone off/on and opening the page after. I get the same cert every time but it's not trusted when on Wi-Fi. This makes sense since it's the origin server cert which is meant to encrypt traffic between my server and cloudflare. To add more certainty, when Wi-Fi is on, a traceroute shows only one hop to my server and shows a bunch of hops when it's off.

shiftymccool OP ,

That's what I'm settling on. However, it's not just about trust, some of the services I'm exposing deal with moving files and I'm mostly interested in higher speeds associated with local transfers as well as not using up my internet data cap.

shiftymccool OP ,

When I turn off Wi-Fi, I'm not on the same network as my server, it's my carrier network so all the internet hops are expected.

The way it's working now is I have a domain (example.com) that is set up on cloudflare DNS. I added a tunnel in cloudflare zero trust, which generates certificates you add to your server to encrypt traffic from your server to cloudflare. I have added these to traefik to be served with my service url (service.example.com). Then, I added a route in cloudflare for service.example.com.

This works fine. But, what I've also done is add a local DNS entry for service.example.com so when I'm on my LAN, I access it without going out to the internet and back (seems like a waste). However, this is serving the origin server certs from cloudflare, which causes trust issues

I'm using docker for everything: traefik, cloudflared tunnel, and my services on the same hardware. The tunnel just runs, and it's configured on cloudflare zero trust to talk directly to the container:port over the docker network.

shiftymccool ,

My guess is they're referring to these release posts with zero detail.

"KelmRigger new release!" means nothing to anybody that's never heard of it. At least add a sentence to say what it is rather than make everyone go look it up.

How do you handle your passwords?

I rely on Bitwarden (slooowly migrating from... a spreadsheet...) and am thinking of keeping a master backup to be SyncThing-synchronized across all my devices, but I'm not sure of how to secure the SyncThing-synchronized files' local access if any one of my Windows or Android units got stolen and somehow cracked into or...

shiftymccool ,

Also built in TOTP / 2fa is pretty great.

I can't wrap my head around how this is a good idea. Isn't the idea of mfa to protect against password theft? If your second factor is stored with your password, how does that help anything? Honest question, I see this everywhere but can't figure out why it's acceptable with security-minded folks

shiftymccool ,

I needed something dead-simple to keep homelab documentation. If it's not simple, I probably wouldn't keep up with changes. I landed on An Otter Wiki https://github.com/redimp/otterwiki

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