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I've got Immich working great on Unraid, but if I'm on my network I can't really use it. Just fails to resolve the dns. I looked it up and it's that my router doesn't support hairpin or something. It's a Aginet hb810. I found a workaround in the Immich client where you can add a second entry that's network specific, but it doesn't seem to work very reliably.

What are my options?

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[–] spaghetti_carbanana@krabb.org 1 points 3 months ago

You've got two options I can think of:

  1. As others have eluded, split DNS. You need something handling DNS resolution internally that allows you to add custom records. You'll need to add a record of type "A" pointing to the internal IP where Immich sits.

  2. Since you have Immich published to your public IP, you can use hairpin NAT. This is something that is a lucky dip with routers as to whether it works or not and only some make it configurable. This will allow you to hit Immich via public IP and the router will "hairpin" the traffic out to the WAN interface and back in. This is how I do it so I don't make a spaghetti mess of DNS records.

Failing to resolve DNS doesn't sound like this is actually the problem though. Do you have a domain registered and DNS records pointing to your public IP? Does it resolve fine outside your network? If yes, then something may be wrong on your internal network's DNS resolution.

Also worth noting, if you only just created the records in public DNS then tried to resolve it straight away, they will not have propagated yet and your DNS resolver will cache the "record doesn't exist" result for some time (most I've seen is a couple of hours).