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Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx

121 points · 30 comments · renehsz

  1. aliasxneo · · focus · HN ↗
    This is one of the core things I've been working towards with DNTLS [1]. I love the idea of tunnels, especially for sharing between private parties. The SaaS providers (Tailscale, Cloudflare, etc.) have done a good job making it really easy on their infra, but it really blurs the line of "self-hosted" to me. Ideally we end up with solutions like this that can be run entirely without an intermediary.

    [1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dntls.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;the-new-internet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dntls.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;the-new-internet

    1. gonzalohm · · focus · HN ↗
      So like wireguard then?
      1. aliasxneo · · focus · HN ↗
        If that&#x27;s all that was necessary then I feel like a lot of these SaaS tools wouldn&#x27;t be as popular. I suspect a lot of Tailscale&#x27;s success is because wireguard is not easy nor does it solve the full problem space (i.e. discovery). With `tailscale serve` I can get a private HTTPS endpoint to my local machine in almost no time.
      2. subscribed · · focus · HN ↗
        Yeah, and Dropbox is just rsync and scp :)
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