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If you are going to have all the home stuff on a subdomain (int.example.com) would it work to delegate int.example.com to a DNS server running at home what has internet access, and could handle the ACME DNS challenges for machines on int.example.com?

If it does then you don't have to mess with your public DNS whenever you want to add or renew certificates for home machines.

I'm using the free DNS my registrar provides, which doesn't provide API access unless you upgrade to their paid DNS service and so if I could use a local DNS server for the ACME challenges for the home network I could pick one that is friendly to automation.



> I'm using the free DNS my registrar provides, which doesn't provide API access unless you upgrade to their paid DNS service

I use Cloudflare for DNS and it is free to use the API.


Yes, you're describing a fundemental feature of DNS.




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