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SSH into private machines from anywhere using Cloudflare Tunnel

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319 points SpaghettiX | 2 comments | 10 Feb 22 09:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.471s | source
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mmettler ◴[10 Feb 22 11:26 UTC] No.30284777[source]▶
If you like this, you’re gonna love Tailscale https://tailscale.com/
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beckler ◴[10 Feb 22 12:13 UTC] No.30285090[source]▶
I love Tailscale, but it’s not really designed for public tunnels. You can do it, but you typically need to provision some kind of proxy with a static IP (most likely cloud based) to handle your public stuff.
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jatone ◴[10 Feb 22 12:54 UTC] No.30285351[source]▶
what do you mean by public channels? if I was trying to ssh into my machines it works wonderfully for dns resolution.
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1. beckler ◴[10 Feb 22 18:50 UTC] No.30290724[source]▶
I mean if I wanted to host a public blog on my private infrastructure, Tailscale alone isn’t going to cut it. I would have to make a instance on a cloud provider to allow public ingress, and I have to setup and configure Tailscale on it to allow it to punch a hole into my walled garden. If I just want plain VPN access to my instances from wherever, then that’s when Tailscale really shines.
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2. jatone ◴[10 Feb 22 19:14 UTC] No.30291025[source]▶
you want a load balancer for that use case. not a VPN. this article is about SSH not a public blog.