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Headscale - Is it ok to use the default config (just editing the address/domain name)? will that be secure enough? Also which ports to I need to forward to my raspberry pi headscale server?

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[-] mouse@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Look at either putting it behind a reverse proxy or using the built in Let's Encrypt / ACME configuration.

Suggested documentation:

The config linked to in their documentation states

# Address to listen to / bind to on the server
#
# For production:
# listen_addr: 0.0.0.0:8080
listen_addr: 127.0.0.1:8080

# Address to listen to /metrics and /debug, you may want
# to keep this endpoint private to your internal network
metrics_listen_addr: 127.0.0.1:9090

Port 8080 TCP is used for the connection, 9090 TCP is for metrics and not suggested to port forward. If you use a reverse proxy, you do not need to port forward to either of those ports directly, and instead to the reverse proxy.

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