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Any self-hostable alternative to playit.gg for easily exposing local game servers to the public internet? (fedia.io)

submitted 3 days ago by mrmaplebar@fedia.io to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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For those who don't know, playit.gg is a free/cheap service for exposing self-hosted local game servers to the wider internet.

But as someone who already has access to a cheapish VPS, I'm curious if anyone knows of any self-hostable alternatives that I could just run as a container on my VPS.

I've been toying with using Wireguard UDP tunneling, but it's proving to be a little bit more difficult and complicated than I was bargaining for. So if anyone knows of anything out there that does something like this, I'd be grateful!

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you unable to port forward?

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Can't port forward through the CGNAT of my ISP, only my own router's NAT.

That is, unless I buy a unique IPv4 from my ISP.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gotcha by the balls, VPN would have the same problem unless you can host the VPN server on IPv6?

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

As I said, I've got a VPS. The VPS is not on my local net, but in a datacenter. As part of being a VPS it has a unique IPv4.

My VPN (which I currently use for TCP traffic) is hosted on the VPS, giving me access to (and from) all devices connected to my VPN regardless of whether they are behind a NAT or not.

I've also got a beefy server which hosts more power hungry services, though this one is behind multiple layers of NAT. I can forward and reverse-proxy TCP services from the beefy server through the VPN and out to the public net using another server with a unique IPv4 just fine.

What I (and OP) need, is to also be able to forward\reverse-proxy UDP services from a beefy NATed/firewalled server through a VPN and out to the public internet using another server which has a unique IPv4.