Let’s say I setup some subdomains and then point them to my home server via Cloudflare tunnel.

If I use one of those subdomains from my personal PC on the same network as my home server, to watch a movie for example, is all of that traffic going out to the internet and then back? Or does all the traffic stay internal once the connection has been made?

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    3 months ago

    How does that work? Do they do something like what tailscale does to negotiate the connection? Can you point me to any doco for how that works?

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      3 months ago

      Remember that we’re talking about a server on your local network, and a device on the local network to make the connection for the stream. We aren’t talking about streaming over the internet.

      • Client looks up server via DNS
      • Client connects to public IP
      • Client handshakes to server
      • Server announces to client available connections (public, local)
      • Client continues connections with local address

      There is no need for tailscale or anything, this is a local connection. The only thing the public address is doing is the initial call to the server.

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        3 months ago

        I get how that could work, but what services actually do that? Homeassistant can, but that needs to be setup explicitly for it to work.