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I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels

(david.coffee)
311 points eustoria | 8 comments | 16 Nov 25 17:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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yegle ◴[16 Nov 25 21:52 UTC] No.45948757[source]▶
Free Cloudflare account cannot be used to serve my Plex server. To me that's a no-go.

The specific term is: https://www.cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-applicatio...

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mandelken ◴[16 Nov 25 22:03 UTC] No.45948839[source]▶
My free account runs cloudflared tunnel just fine for jellyfin. Is it just plex?

I use the tunnel because my girlfriend cant install tailscale on her work laptop, so this way she can still login to jellyfin while traveling.

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1. 369548684892826 ◴[16 Nov 25 23:03 UTC] No.45949257[source]▶
It’s not that it can’t do it, it’s that it’s against the terms of service to use it for video.
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2. stingraycharles ◴[17 Nov 25 01:32 UTC] No.45950112[source]▶
Isn’t that for their CDN, rather than Zero Trust? I don’t think they even know what traffic is going over Zero Trust.
3. mycall ◴[17 Nov 25 01:58 UTC] No.45950233[source]▶
You can't play corporate videos over Cloudflare Warp? Where is the line drawn?
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4. tombert ◴[17 Nov 25 02:50 UTC] No.45950452[source]▶
I think they don't want you using a boatload of bandwidth, since data proxies through their servers.
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6. close04 ◴[17 Nov 25 10:49 UTC] No.45952467[source]▶
> it’s against the terms of service to use it for video

It for any large files. They want to limit bandwidth usage but not blanket limit everyone. One user using Plex of Jellyfin probably doesn't move the needle.

7. wink ◴[17 Nov 25 14:14 UTC] No.45953721{3}[source]▶
Yes and that's what people are criticizing - it's just an arbitrary and thus very bad rule. Completely unrelated to CloudFlare, I streamed a single TV series from a friend's plex account 1-2y ago, that's less traffic than some of my friends use in 2 weeks.

I'm not saying they can't have that rule, it's their infra - I'm just saying that "a boatload of bandwidth" can be anything, depending on who you ask.

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8. tombert ◴[17 Nov 25 18:30 UTC] No.45956414{4}[source]▶
FWIW, even if it’s against the rules I have been using Cloudflare tunnels for my Jellyfin server for months and I haven’t even gotten a nastygram yet.

I think it’s more of a “we reserve the right to…” situation than anything else.