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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Red_Con_ on 2025-04-06 22:50:44+00:00.

Hey,

I commonly see an advice for putting all external facing devices (e.g. home servers) to their own VLAN (DMZ) which would be isolated from the rest of your home network. I might be missing something but I don't really see its purpose in homelabs considering you probably want the devices on your home/"main" VLAN (phones, laptops etc.) to be able to locally communicate with these external facing devices (e.g. to access your selfhosted apps) while at home. The communication also doesn't have to be one way (home VLAN -> DMZ) but in some cases you might want the DMZ to be able to access your home VLAN as well (e.g. local notifications). That would however mean that you would have to give the home VLAN and the DMZ network access to each other which would defeat the purpose of the DMZ, wouldn't it?