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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: 0.001s | 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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anderspitman ◴[10 Feb 22 18:34 UTC] No.30290509[source]▶
A core offering of Cloudflare Tunnel is the ability to host web servers through tunnels. Tailscale requires you to run your own reverse proxy on a publicly-accessible node in order to accomplish this.
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1. skazazes ◴[10 Feb 22 19:05 UTC] No.30290916[source]▶
This is not my experience having recently set up web servers in a cloud virtual network with no inbound ports open. I can tailscale in and connect to web servers behind traefik configured to use the dns-01 challenge. The only way to access these webaps is through tailscale.
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2. anderspitman ◴[10 Feb 22 19:06 UTC] No.30290940[source]▶
Sorry I meant specifically public web servers, ie hosting a website or sharing a Jellyfin server with your family without requiring them to have Tailscale accounts.