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Poor man's ngrok with tcp proxy and ssh reverse tunnel

Kamal Mustafa on November 18, 2017

Updates 2024 I have started using Cloudflare Tunnel lately. It works great for my own use but still figuring out how to make it availabl...
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Kamal Mustafa •

Alternative to ngrok but simply use ssh as client. Brilliant idea - serveo.net/.

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Sony AK • • Edited

brilliant and game changer :)

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leeee-me •

Better to add some fault-and-failover:
-o BatchMode=yes -o ServerAliveCountMax=15 -o ServerAliveInterval=300 -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes

By the way, ssh cannot help binding privileged ports smaller than 1024, only if we remote ssh as root@remotehost (or any UID 0 identity)... safe but inconvenient.

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Kamal Mustafa •

Hi, thanks for the tips. Haven't try this but for binding to lower port, maybe we can use setcap to allow tcpproxy to bind to port < 1024.

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abhishekq61 •

You could also give it a try.It provides custom domain for free Staqlab Tunnel
tunnel.staqlab.com