Selfhosted @lemmy.world someoneFromInternet @lemmy.ml 2d ago

How do you use only ipv6 server?

Recently I bought vps which have only ipv6. It's obviously that I don't have ipv6 home. So, here is question: how do you interact with such servers?

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have you tried using a vpn, e.g. tailscale?

extremely easy to set up, if you are a selfhost purist, there's headscale as a direct alternative.

only really good at doing stuff in a personal workspace, not really made for exposing to the public internet, still very possible tho
- how can I use vpn for it? I have another vps with both ipv4 and 6. But I can't find solution for it.
  
  Great, if you need to SSH into Ipv6 only machine, SSH has -J flag which can be used to specify "jump host" (basically run SSH through SSH)
  
  what if I want to host something on it? I need reverse proxy?
  
  Host a website that needs to be accessible from your own machine or public?
  
  Former situation: Can be solved by setup reverse proxy on the other VPS, or join machines to a VPN server (like tailscale,, Zertoier or Wireguard server)
  
  Later situation: Cloudflare or other CDN, setup reverse proxy on the other VPS.
  
  Less accessible option but available for public: Tor or I2P
  
  here is problem: I don't know how to set up wireguard and can't find any good guides
  
  Personally have good experience with https://github.com/Nyr/wireguard-install, there are other script that are available by searching "wireguard setup script github".
  
  Note: By default Wireguard config generated will route every bit of traffic through Wireguard (which will be slower and probably not wanted in this situation), to change that change AllowedIPs field in Wireguard config, lets say all your machines are assigned 1.2.3.xxx as IP address, to only access other 1.2.3.xxx IP through wireguard, change the config to AllowedIPs = 1.2.3.0/24.

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