I followed this tutorial to set up local domain names with SSL-certificates using DuckDNS: https://notthebe.ee/blog/easy-ssl-in-homelab-dns01/

I have three local domains for my Nginx Proxy Manager running on a VPS, for my self-hosted Nextcloud and my Proxmox-WebGUI both running on my local Homeserver. They follow the scheme service.dataprolet.duckdns.org.

Now I use Uptime-Kuma to monitor my services including the three domains and for some reason those three domains constantly time out after 48 seconds. I already set up the retries to 3, but to no avail.

I also use Pi-hole and Unbound and thought, that might be an issue, but testing my DNS using dig, mtr, traceroute, nslookup and host all returned normal values and no errors.

Does anybody have any idea what could cause this? I’m kind of clueless at this point. Thanks in advance!

EDIT: I don’t get it.

  1. I can’t ping duckdns.org on my home server. I only get 100 % packet loss. I can open the website in my browser though. I also can’t ping www.duckdns.org, which redirects to appservers-duckdns-prod-1630339571.ca-central-1.elb.amazonaws.com. Also gets 100 % packet loss.
  2. I’ve added duckdns.org to my Uptime-Kuma and it got flagged as down because timeout of 48000ms exceeded but my other domains using DuckDNS were unaffected.
  3. I added another local domain to Uptime-Kuma to see the differences of having ignoring SSL errors tuned on or off and the number of retries:
  • Nextcloud
    • Ignore SSL error = false
    • Retries = 2
  • Proxmox
    • Ignore SSL error = true
    • Retries = 1
  • VPS
    • Ignore SSL error = false
    • Retries = 1
  • Homepage
    • Ignore SSL error = true
    • Retries = 2

Throughout the day only the newly added Homepage got flagged as down for 5 times. The 3 others were up the whole time.

    • alwayssitting@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      Sorry I’m a bit confused. What kind of tracker are you using in uptime-kuma and what address is it pointing to?

      • Dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        1·
        9 days ago

        What do you mean by tracker? I’m monitoring local domains, that point to local services and their respective web interfaces like Proxmox or Nextcloud. The local domains have a wildcard SSL certificate via DuckDNS.

        • alwayssitting@infosec.pubEnglish
          1·
          9 days ago

          Which one of those. You pick one when adding something new to monitor. Actually just send a screenshot of the uptime-kuma settings of one of the services that are giving you problems.

            • alwayssitting@infosec.pubEnglish
              2·
              9 days ago

              Well you keep saying monitor a domain, in that case a DNS monitor would make more sense than HTTP(s) since that’s for monitoring a service. That’s why I was a bit confused. But yeah try to enable the ignore SSL option and see if that changes anything. You didn’t include a screenshot of the settings which makes a bit difficult to diagnose the problem so I will leave it here.

    • rearview@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      seems like your DNS works fine but your certs doesn’t. Are you able to connect to your services on your browser normally, with SSL?

      Edit: please also try curl -4 and curl -6 to your services from within the uptime kuma container to see if theres an ipv4/v6 issue

      Another edit: seems like there is a dataprolet URL in your post and a datenprolet URL in your comments. It might just be a typo so also check that too.

      • Dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        Yeah, it works fine through my browser. Sometimes the websites load a little longer. I feel like it’s an issue with DuckDNS as it’s seemingly random when it works and when not.

        IPv6 doesn’t work:

        docker exec -it Uptime-Kuma curl -6 proxmox.datenprolet.duckdns.org
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: proxmox.datenprolet.duckdns.org

        Besides that the issue has disappeares since last night. I automatically restart all containers at night and moved from uptime-kuma:1 to uptime-kuma:latest. That shouldn’t make a difference, but maybe it did?

        And it’s not a typo in my config, but in my post. But good catch. ;)

        • rearview@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          Could not resolve host

          Then I guess you only define an A record in the DuckDNS panel. That’s fine.

          A while back I ran a somewhat similar Wireguard tunnel and can’t connect. Turns out some MTU settings were lower than the docker’s MTU and that breaks big packets like SSL handshakes. Restarting makes it work fine until things start congesting again.

          Suffice to say this would be something I’ll look at if the SSL errors reoccurs

          • Dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
            2·
            6 days ago

            So the MTU of Tailscale is actually 1280, but is the connection even going through the VPN or rather through my VPS, when Uptime-Kuma is trying to connect to my local domain?

            • rearview@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              6 days ago

              It shouldn’t go through the VPN although idk how to verify that. Do you still have the timeout errors in your monitors? What do those errors say?

          • Dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
            2·
            7 days ago

            Thanks, since I access my home network and server through the public IPv4 of a VPS via Tailscale this could actually be the issue. I’ll look into it, when I find the time.