Thank you @d19dotca @nebulon @robi for your replies. I use adguard on the same server which allows for DNS rewrites. I guess I was trying to achieve what Resilio sync does (e.g. connect to peers using LAN when in LAN).

In this case, I wanted to try by pointing the DNS name of nextcloud installation to local server IP:port. I am not sure if this will be possible (probably not right? unless I change the server itself in my nextcloud client?). If it's not possible, it is OK I guess.

I have a nextcloud installation on my Cloudron hosted at home. If I rewrite dns name to local IP (to speed things up), which port do I use? Where do I find the information on which local ports Cloudron has assigned for apps? Any ideas?

Thanks,
Rama

@nebulon @girish will there be a search option for files? It will be nice to have an indexing mechanism for files that are already ocr'd, instead of just looking for the file names.