I have a personal domain name. I got it because my first name was available with my country tld.

I use it for email, which I will most likely keep forever, but how about my self-hosted stuff?

I use Slack’s Nebula to access my self-hosted resources externally.

Would you mind exposing your VPS:es IP:s to the world by adding them as subdomains? In my case lighthouse1.myname.tld and lighthouse2.myname.tld?

I feel much more secure using DuckDNS for those IP:s as it should make it much harder to identify my attack surface.

Does it make sense or am I just paranoid?

I really don’t like the idea of my attack surface being easily identifiable just by my email or first name.

  • krimsonstudios@alien.topBEnglish
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    9 months ago

    My approach is using Nginx and wildcard subdomains. The specific subdomain name that accesses the service is not listed in DNS anywhere and just knowing the IP address doesn’t get you anything since m.y.i.p:443 is just getting you an nginx landing page.