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Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

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adamfeldman · 1789751092 · focus · HN ↗
Cloudflare doesn't really seem to care about their tunnel product. "cloudflared service install broken on macOS" since 2021: <a href="https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/issues/327" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/issues/327
1. keeganpoppen · 1789753151 · focus · HN ↗
  yeah am i crazy or could it not like already do this as well? i swear i’ve seen somesuch similar in the cloudflared options. maybe not. but i can second having had some problems over the year getting cloudflared to install/set up correctly. tbf the actual feature works amazing once you get it working.
  1. robertlagrant · 1789756391 · focus · HN ↗
    As I understand it you can make a tunnel, but it's under a domain you control and it's a few clicks in the dashboard to set up, and then a something to run in CLI. That's what my homelab uses. This is just a single CLI command and the whole thing is set up.
2. st3fan · 1789758047 · focus · HN ↗
  Huh I brew installed it and got a working tunnel in like 15 seconds.
  1. lysace · 1789766130 · focus · HN ↗
    Install via brew worked. Getting the hostname to resolve took 30 mins of waiting. Have they heard of wildcard DNS?
    judge2020 · 1789773183 · focus · HN ↗
    Cloudflare isn't going to wildcard every domain on their platform just to cure stale cache DNS issues.
    lysace · 1789785363 · focus · HN ↗
    That wasn’t the ask though.
    The product is falsely advertised as is:
    "Cloudflare Quick Tunnels"
    This is on one (or two) particular domain(s) where setting up wildcard DNS should be relatively trivial, if they actually cared enough about the UX of this product to make a special case in their code.
    I don't understand how people can launch stuff like this.
    inemesitaffia · 1789828766 · focus · HN ↗
    Works on someone's computer.
    It's "free". That's all you need to understand.
    st3fan · 1789850977 · focus · HN ↗
    I don’t understand what you are complaining about. Do you think there is an actual bug?

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