because this still sounds like you will need mdns queries to work, which fundamentally rely on broadcast to work

GPT told me that I need to propagate have something that will answer DNS queries and respond with mDNS entries

any way I could interpret this ranges from “might work but forbidden by the spec” to “might work but extremely sketchy”. but let’s see what K900 says, he is the tailscale guy

In reply to @saiko:knifepoint.net
can you make the dashboard proxy the info instead of requiring the client to access the devices directly, or set non-mdns names for the devices?

domain (Optional, string): Set the domain of the node hostname used for uploading. For example, if it’s set to .local, all uploads will be sent to <HOSTNAME>.local. Defaults to .local.

is this related? I have no idea what it’s talking about with “uploads” but if so, you could actually change the domain suffix from what it looks like to something that can be resolved everywhere https://esphome.io/components/wifi/

In reply to @toonn:matrix.org
Katalin: I may have a utility that does that to proxy mDNS hosts with Nginx.

@toonn:matrix.org some haskell review

• https://codeberg.org/toonn/dns2mdns/src/branch/trunk/src/Main.hs#L68 bytestring has toStrict and fromStrict in the lazy module
• https://codeberg.org/toonn/dns2mdns/src/branch/trunk/src/Main.hs#L48 all toplevel bindings should have types

I had this on one laptop where I absolutely needed to use network damager for managing WiFi due to reasons. Thus, the rather weird config on that.

   # Enable Network Manager for WiFi networking
   networking.networkmanager = {
     enable = true;
     connectionConfig."connection.mdns" = 2;
     dns = "systemd-resolved";
     # firewallBackend = "nftables"; ## Deprecated
   };
   networking.resolvconf.dnsSingleRequest = true;
   services.resolved = {
     enable = true;
     llmnr = "false";
     fallbackDns = [
 #      "8.8.8.8"
 #      "2001:4860:4860::8888"
       "1.1.1.1#cloudflare-dns.com"
       "1.0.0.1#cloudflare-dns.com"
       "2606:4700:4700::1111#cloudflare-dns.com"
       "2606:4700:4700::1001#cloudflare-dns.com"
     ];
     extraConfig = ''
         MulticastDNS=yes
         Cache=no-negative
       DNSOverTLS=opportunistic
       DNSStubListenerExtra=::53
     '';
   };

Firewall needs to be handled as well, like:

   # Open ports in the firewall.
   networking.nftables.enable = config.networking.firewall.enable || false ;
   networking.firewall = {
     enable = false;
     allowedTCPPorts = [
       "22"
     ];
     allowedUDPPorts = [
       ""
     ];
     extraInputRules = ''
       ip6 daddr ff02::fb/128 udp sport 5353 dport 5353 accept
       ip daddr 224.0.0.251 udp sport 5353 dport 5353 accept
     '';
   };