Your node won't be going through the VPN.. all the VPN will be doing is giving you access into your network from the outside.. your node will be connected however you would normally do it through clearnet, hybrid, tor, or i2p.
This was my point. If your LN node is already on public clearnet there’s no reason to not just use lightning itself to connect to your node. It’s basically the wireguard protocol anyways (noise). If it’s a tor-only node then yeah wireguard might make more sense since tor is shit.
Ok. I see the disconnect here. I'm currently running my nodes over Tor. It is shit. I'm considering going over clearnet for the nodes but not sure if I'm ready to share my home IP address. I believe all the suggestions were about how I could contact/admin my own node. I'm looking for options on how to change my node itself to no longer use Tor.
It seems like clearnet is maybe the only option, or I could maybe build a ssh-style on a VPS IP address or whatnot.
Just use a Cloudflare tunnel if you don't want your IP public
Why not both? it makes more sense to only use the lightning network itself with onion messages without using the node clearnet ip & port. in the case of "direct" connection - isn't limit incoming clearnet node traffic only from the wiregaurd tunnel a better practice?
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