Hey guys, For my home server I am using a Cloudflare domain name to access it, but I noticed today that my connections are secured using the Google Trust Services LLC certs, rather than the Let’s Encrypt certs Nginx Proxy Manager uses… so I’m assuming that cloudflare is having a ball sniffing all my traffic before forwarding my requests to my server…

Is there a way around this? Do other registrars do this??

Thanks!

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    Are you using cloudflares protection or proxy? That orange toggle next to the a record?

    If so, then cloudflare is acting as a middle man and will use their SSL certs.

    • 🅱🅴🅿🅿🅸@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Ohhh wow I can’t believe I forgot about that, I feel so dumb hahaha.

      Are there any benefits to keeping this switched on? Other than than the security I mean, is the tradeoff between privacy and security worth it in your opinion?

      • brygphilomena@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        That’s something you’d have to decide in your threat model.

        Do you think cloudflare, which is trusted by many, many large organizations would do anything malicious with your traffic? It’s unlikely, but if that is something your concerned about them turn it off. I don’t think for most self hosted services it’s necessary but I also don’t think it matters either way.

  • forbiddenlake@fedia.io
    9·
    1 year ago

    You can disable cloudflare’s tls termination by setting the DNS record to DNS only. Be aware that this then bypasses their cdn, probably making things slower, and bypasses most of the security they put in place for you.

    Other cdns may or may not do similar. It’s hard to do WAF when you can’t see the traffic.

    Note that a registrar and a cdn are different things. It’s possible to remain on cloud flare for your domain registration and DNS while using a different cdn.