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Are you just trying to expose a port in your computer through your router for friends to connect to? What is on the other end of the tunnel? If it's just an ope

Are you just trying to expose a port in your computer through your router for friends to connect to? What is on the other end of the tunnel? If it's just an open Minecraft server for anyone to connect to by IP address (or dynamic DNS), you should be able to just configure your router to forward that port to your particular machine. Apologies if I'm misunderstanding you. It's not clear what the tunnel is supposed to do in this case.

Imustaskforhelp 2y ago
I don't have the root access or anything to the server but I have ssh access to it. Its okay if you misunderstood me. Here's what I mean I am running ssh in a rootless machine (they have given me permissions) , I would like to run minecraft in it. (hacking for fun y'know), but I don't have the ability to configure that router (obviously) , I would like the server to be used by the web (without the other users worrying about anything but just a link) Pinggit does it but I have some issues 1) It only has an hour max 2) It doesn't give me a permanent address 3) Its not foss. Now Please read me post again , I hope you could help me with a solution Hope you have a nice day , Cheers!
- solardev 2y ago
  Sorry, still a bit confused. > I don't have the root access or anything to the server but I have ssh access to it. So wait, this server isn't in your house behind your router, it's already on the internet? Is it publicly accessible by IP address? > I am running ssh in a rootless machine (they have given me permissions) , I would like to run minecraft in it Does the minecraft server daemon work as non-root? If so, doesn't it already expose a port that anyone can reach via the internet? Is the issue that the server admin lets you run Minecraft, but firewall rules etc. don't open that port to incoming traffic? Are you sure they're ok with you running a game server on that machine (they typically tend to be pretty CPU-heavy)? If so, you might just be able to open a standard SSH tunnel without any additional apps. But you still need to have some other publicly-accessible server that's reachable from the internet (the other end of the tunnel). Usually that's what costs money, because it requires an always-on server that will forward all the players' network activity through it to your real server. Maybe you can use a free-tier EC2 server (or similar on GCP or Azure) to host that endpoint and forward that proxy. But I think it's a lot less work and cost to just rent a Minecraft server on a shared host (they're like <$10/mo).

Imustaskforhelp 2y ago

I don't have the root access or anything to the server but I have ssh access to it. Its okay if you misunderstood me. Here's what I mean I am running ssh in a rootless machine (they have given me permissions) , I would like to run minecraft in it. (hacking for fun y'know), but I don't have the ability to configure that router (obviously) , I would like the server to be used by the web (without the other users worrying about anything but just a link) Pinggit does it but I have some issues 1) It only has an hour max 2) It doesn't give me a permanent address 3) Its not foss. Now Please read me post again , I hope you could help me with a solution Hope you have a nice day , Cheers!

solardev 2y ago
Sorry, still a bit confused. > I don't have the root access or anything to the server but I have ssh access to it. So wait, this server isn't in your house behind your router, it's already on the internet? Is it publicly accessible by IP address? > I am running ssh in a rootless machine (they have given me permissions) , I would like to run minecraft in it Does the minecraft server daemon work as non-root? If so, doesn't it already expose a port that anyone can reach via the internet? Is the issue that the server admin lets you run Minecraft, but firewall rules etc. don't open that port to incoming traffic? Are you sure they're ok with you running a game server on that machine (they typically tend to be pretty CPU-heavy)? If so, you might just be able to open a standard SSH tunnel without any additional apps. But you still need to have some other publicly-accessible server that's reachable from the internet (the other end of the tunnel). Usually that's what costs money, because it requires an always-on server that will forward all the players' network activity through it to your real server. Maybe you can use a free-tier EC2 server (or similar on GCP or Azure) to host that endpoint and forward that proxy. But I think it's a lot less work and cost to just rent a Minecraft server on a shared host (they're like <$10/mo).