Local WAN Redirect on Mikrotik

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As a keeper of the family Minecraft server, I had the holy duty of setting up the firewall to accept it from the outside. Just poke a few holes in the firewall so it plays nice with NAT and you’re essentially done: In order to access it from the internal network, I just added entry in my DNS server with the local address and life was good. However, with the move toward encrypted DNS, my Mikrotik wasn’t the main source of truth anymore. Suddenly computers on my network would receive external IP and my router didn’t know how to route that. Most solutions I’ve seen dealt with hairpin NAT but one didn’t.

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