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?

  • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    I dont know that that is true. With cloudflare tunnels, their server.x.y.z will resolve to a cloudlfare IP address, which then tunnels it to their server? The traffic has to hit the cloudflare server, it can’t short circuit that connection? Am I missing something?

    • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Depends on the server obviously, but most will pass off their local once the initial handshake is made.

      Once that is done, DNS isnt relevant anymore.

      Edit: This is especially true for media (movies, TV) servers.

      • CameronDev@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        2 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?

      • SteveTech@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Uhh, this might be true for WebRTC, except not much uses WebRTC other than for realtime streaming/calling. Jellyfin for example is just an mp4 stream over http; and http(s) will only use the IP in the DNS record. I’d like to see a packet capture if you are certain something is switching IP.