I have an openwrt router at home which also acts as my home server. It’s running a bunch of services using docker (Jellyfin, Nextcloud, etc.)

I have set up an SSH tunnel between my openwrt router and VPS and can access jellyfin successfully.

I understand that I need to set up a reverse proxy to access multiple services and have https.

But I’m confused if I should set up this reverse proxy on the VPS or on the router itself. Is nginx the easiest option? Should i add subdomains in cloudflare for every service?

Pease don’t recommend vpns since they are all blocked where i live (wireguard, tailscale openVPN, etc.) I’m limited to using ssh tunneling only.

Thanks

  • DataproletEnglish
    41·
    5 months ago

    How can something like Tailscale be blocked?

    • Felix_lm22English
      111·
      5 months ago5 months ago

      Unfortunately, Deep Packet Inspection does this as Tailscale/Wireguard does not encrypt traffic

      My bad, it encrypts traffic, but I mean easily readable signature

      • loutrEnglish
        90·
        5 months ago

        Wireguard, like all VPNs, definitely does E2E encryption. What would be the point of an unencrypted VPN?

      • MelmiEnglish
        50·
        5 months ago

        It definitely encrypts the traffic, the problem is that it encrypts the traffic in a recognizable way that DPI can recognize. It’s easy for someone snooping on your traffic to tell that you’re using Wireguard, but because it’s encrypted they can’t tell the content of the message.

        • mFatOPEnglish
          30·
          5 months ago

          It’s easily detected by firewalls in China and Iran.

          • DataproletEnglish
            10·
            5 months ago

            Interesting, because Tailacale doesn’t use any special ports. How would that be detected? And could you maybe use Headscale on a dynamic port to circumvent that?

            • mFatOPEnglish
              40·
              5 months ago5 months ago

              Wireguard is blocked at protocol level no matter which port you use. Tailsclale uses wireguard. Haven’t tried headscale yet.

            • mFatOPEnglish
              10·
              5 months ago

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      • PyrosisEnglish
        20·
        5 months ago

        It’s definitely encrypted they can just tell by signature that it is wireguard or whatever and block it.

        They could do this with ssh if they felt like it.