Agreed. My favorite part is that you don’t need any special consideration for local/WAN splits in DNS. Your DNS address for your homelab server is the same addr

Agreed. My favorite part is that you don’t need any special consideration for local/WAN splits in DNS. Your DNS address for your homelab server is the same address on your LAN as it is on the WAN, so your DNS can just be the same. Thus “ssh hostname.fqdn” works whether you’re on the local network or remote, and your packets just automatically stay on your LAN when you’re local (they don’t even have to hit your router… they can directly unicast if you’re on the same switch. No “hairpin NAT” or anything like that needed.)