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What if you live in a college dorm or use apartment wifi where they do not give you control of the port forwarding rules? Or what if you want to deploy devices
by aftbit 6y ago
What if you live in a college dorm or use apartment wifi where they do not give you control of the port forwarding rules? Or what if you want to deploy devices into other peoples' networks (e.g. IoT)? What if you're sending someone a bootable USB image so you can do data recovery on their hard drive in situ without them having to ship it to you? What if you're behind a carrier-grade NAT and don't have a public IPv4 address at all? In these cases and many more, you might find a wireguard bounce host useful.
- ahnick 6y agoHonestly, I'd probably just use Tailscale for that, so I guess the bounce server solution occupies some middle ground where one doesn't have control over the network and either doesn't have the money for tailscale or likes owning their infra end-to-end.
- aftbit 6y agoFor me, it's indeed about FLOSS and owning the system end-to-end. Plus, I want to be able to build things like Tailscale, and I can't very well do that just using the existing tools. :)