why are they generating an address on your behalf if you have your own node?
i guess I'm unclear on the concept.
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Its the way zaps and LN addresses works. There is a web server hosting your address, when the payer pings that by tapping zap or scanning a QR etc, it tells that web server to generate an invoice on the connected node.
If you control the web server, you can control which node you ask to generate the invoice.
sorry
but why dont you run the web server yourself if you have the node online anyway?
DNS etc I suppose...
I was and it doesn't work reliably. LN node at home over Tor > VPS reverse proxy to host my LN address.
Payments went through most of the time, but the actual zap reports in Nostr almost never worked.
You could cut Tor out here and do a SSH reverse tunnel for far better reliability.
Wouldn't I need to expose ports at home then?
No, presuming you have the webserver on that VPS serving up the invoices, you SSH from the node at home into the VPS with a reverse tunnel and the VPS box is now able to hit the node at home through that SSH tunnel, without exposing ports at home.
Know of any guides to achieve this?
hey
just looking at this
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/46235/how-does-reverse-ssh-tunneling-work
rough if you try and avoid the cmdline by default 😜
Thanks man. I aim to remain a GUI warrior until my final breath.
there isn't a GUI afaik but tailscale works well for exposing private services in your network without opening ports at home.
In fact you just jogged my memory, it wasn't a Tor proxy I'm using it's this.
ahh yeah that makes sense. I wish start9 had a built-in integration with tailscale.
They've been teasing a network/connectivity upgrade for a while now. Hope it comes soon.