NextCloudPi, how to set up DDNS url to work within LAN

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@Alyosha

“Remember to point your PC and devices DNS or
your router DNS to your NCP IP” but I don’t know how to do that.

The router is a bit older, a Tp-Link Archer C7, but it has built in support for No-IP, and that all seems to work. Its documentation for NAT forwarding is not helpful.

This way over DNS is the right way to go to make it work on all devices:

101: Split-Brain DNS (split-horizon)

Split-brain DNS, also known as split-horizon DNS or split-view DNS, is a technique used in computer networking to manage how computers resolve domain names (like cloud.mydomain.tld) differently depending on whether they are inside or outside a specific network, typically an internal network. The main goal is to avoid looping connections from internal network through the public internet which adds delays and possibly reduce bandwidth. [image] as you see in the image client from the internet …

You went the right way. If the dnsmasq is running on the server, you have to check the router settings, the DHCP section, the DHCP on the router promotes one or several DNS servers/resolvers. Often it is the ip of the router itself, or one of your provider. This one you have to change to your dnsmasq server’s ip.

Some open router software (OpenWRT) already integrate dnsmasq or similar services. Not sure if your router can work with such a firmware. By the way, a nice open source router: Turris Omnia - Wikipedia (they based their firmware on openwrt).