| 11 Sep 2025 |
 @saiko:knifepoint.net | otherwise if this can’t be changed I would really just use openvpn or some othe tap tunnel | 15:48:32 |
| @saiko:knifepoint.net | and then it should just work | 15:48:39 |
 toonn | K900: Do you have a way of getting mDNS to work over Tailscale? | 15:48:42 |
 ghostbuster91 | I don't think so. The info pages use websockets to propagate realtime information | 15:49:34 |
| ghostbuster91 | Yeah that would work | 15:49:52 |
| @saiko:knifepoint.net | 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
| 15:59:37 |
| @saiko:knifepoint.net | 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/
| 16:04:24 |
| @saiko:knifepoint.net | people are also saying you can use static IPs but 👎 | 16:05:55 |
| ghostbuster91 | hmm nice finding! I will look into this | 16:05:57 |
| ghostbuster91 | it does not help in my case unfortunately. With this setting you control domain on which you expect your devices to be available. By default it is local because all(?) esp devices support mdns and everyone uses it | 16:09:35 |
| ghostbuster91 | * it does not help in my case unfortunately. With this setting you control domain on which you expect your devices to be available. By default it is local because all(?) esp devices support mdns and everyone uses it like that | 16:09:44 |
| toonn | Katalin: I may have a utility that does that to proxy mDNS hosts with Nginx. | 16:15:10 |
| @saiko:knifepoint.net | In reply to @toonn:matrix.org
Katalin: I may have a utility that does that to proxy mDNS hosts with Nginx. sorry, does what? | 16:17:33 |
| toonn | Responds to DNS queries with mDNS responses. | 16:25:05 |
| @saiko:knifepoint.net | oh wow 🫠 | 16:27:14 |
| toonn | Don't tell anyone though, wouldn't want to hurt my reputation. | 16:28:40 |
| @saiko:knifepoint.net | new blackmail material acquired /j | 16:29:23 |
| ghostbuster91 | please share it or otherwise I will spread the word :P | 16:35:48 |
| toonn | I could upload it to Codeberg if you really want but it's a small pile of mostly commented out Haskell. | 16:42:03 |
| ghostbuster91 | yes, please, I am curious how it works actually | 16:44:30 |
| 12 Sep 2025 |
|  @jordanjoel1:matrix.org changed their profile picture. | 03:27:06 |
| @jordanjoel1:matrix.org left the room. | 03:34:46 |
| ghostbuster91 | Katalin 🔪: toonn what do you think about switching from tailscale to zerotier in this case? | 10:26:18 |
| toonn | Don't have experience with Zerotier. It sounds more open but I don't have reliable publically accessible hardware for relaying and such. | 10:35:03 |
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| toonn | ghostbuster91: As promised my unicast DNS multicaster, https://codeberg.org/toonn/dns2mdns | 13:15:30 |
 Jassuko | Huh? Doesn't nginx support resolving through normal OS provided name lookups? | 13:32:35 |
| toonn | If you have a configuration for me that makes that utility redundant, I'm all ears. | 13:37:14 |
 magic_rb | @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
| 13:37:15 |
| magic_rb | You can enable mDNS in systemd-resolved and then nginx should use that. | 13:37:49 |
