On Thu Oct 13, 2022 at 17:12 +0200, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> > And using Let's Encrypt for private mirrors is sufficiently painful that I
> > wouldn't recommend it.
>
> Set up a subdomain like vpn.example.com, point it to the public IP, then 
> configure the VPN's internal DNS to resolve vpn.example.com to the VPN-
> internal address instead, the /etc/hosts on the VPN server itself to resolve 
> it to 127.0.0.1, and the mirror server on port 443 (whereas port 80 is 
> reserved for certbot's builtin temporary (and world-readable) webserver with 
> the http-01 challenge) to accept connections only from the VPN and from 
> localhost and to use the Let's Encrypt certificate. Been there, done that 
> (not for a repository mirror though, my employer is small enough for that 
> not to be worthwhile). I assume that this approach should also work for a 
> physical LAN in lieu of the VPN.

Let's Encrypt also supports the dns-01 challenge[1] that doesn't require
any publicly available IPs. Using dns verification is required to obtain a
Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate.

[1]: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/#dns-01-challenge
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