is there a way to enable access to my servers lan from my client for accessing things like my router gateway and local media servers?
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We’ve blocked local network access since it can be a security vulnerability on cloud providers (e.g. you may be able to access management APIs) and also depending on the server instance configuration. Since Outline is designed to be used to access to internet by multiple people this offered the best default.
The client doesn’t route local traffic to the server either because shadowsocks gives us no way to convey local network routing information to the client so we wouldn’t know what to send where. (I would expect most users would want their local network to keep working while connected to Outline even if we could route all non-VPN traffic remotely.)
i already have tailscale as my 3rd app option for local access so i will prob just stick with that. my question was whether outline supports these in order to eliminate an extra service
Why not making it an option (disabled by default)?
No, Outline is not a reverse proxy. It’s a forward socks proxy that needs to be accessed by a public IP.
Just FYI, the reverse proxy solutions also need a server running on public IP, so that instead of connecting to your local network directly (which you can’t with residential internet), you connect to the server on the public IP, and the server would relay the requests to your localhost client.
If you want to host your own reverse proxy, I believe localtunnel allows you to do that.
ive used things like tailscale openvpn and other vpns as reverse proxys before. just wondering if outline had same functionality