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capin
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Sep 30, 2022
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Adding mDNS services for Orbi Pro 6

I would like to have a isolated vlan with limited service access to a page hosted on port 443 from another vlan. Is that possible? I was thinking mDNS would be a possible solution but I only see chro...
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    archite
    Oct 06, 2022

    When you enable mDNS from one VLAN to another, it exposes everything on those hosts to the target VLAN I've found. I assume this is because it would be a headache to parse the mDNS advertisement for every service and create an iptables rule for each one.

     

    If you want to expose one or two services between VLAN's, then a host that is attached to both sides would be the easiest and most secure. You could either proxy the connection using traefikcaddy, or even just straight iptables.

     

    The mDNS feature added by NetGear is mostly just a 1 directional convenience tool to allow access IoT devices to be accessed easily. I think you're asking too much from it. It's barely better than an mDNS-repeater.

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