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If you use IPv6 globally routable addresses for your services you can avoid all split horizon DNS, NAT, hairpin, etc. With the magic of IP routing and maybe some custom wireguard route advertisements your packets will go through the shortest path wherever your client hosts are.
This is how I do it. No VPN. No NAT nonsense. You can open an IPv6 address to the public internet and nobody is going to stumble across it. You don't even disclose your address to servers you connect to.
100% of shady connections come from bots scanning address space on IPv4.