How do I know if I'm connected remotely?

[Luke 42078]

You said that. Repeatedly. It's not true.

 

Sorry, what isn't true? We're happy to help. Thanks.

[crusher11 1101]

@darkassasin07 Could you explain the local DNS thing?

[darkassassin07 652]

Essentially my router acts as the primary dns server for any of the devices on lan. Whenever something on lan requests the ip for my domain name, my router just returns the local ip of the nginx proxy instead of asking the public dns servers what the cloudflare ip is.

 

I did this by installing ddwrt on a consumer dlink router and using the dnsmasq settings within that, but some routers have this ability built in natively, or you could consider setting up a full blown dns server (though I have no experience with that path)