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I did the homemade version of this for years just with SSH forwarding and nginx reverse proxy
by petcat 2mo ago
I did the homemade version of this for years just with SSH forwarding and nginx reverse proxy
- nateguchi 2mo agobut without nat traversal...
- petcat 2mo agoIs NAT traversal actually that big of a feature? The category of people that would use a tool like this already knows many ways to do it without NAT getting in the way.
- 9dev 2mo agoUnless you have some kind of dynamic DNS with a background daemon, you'll be bothered by NAT eventually. And even then it's hardly as convenient. With Tailscale, I can sit on a rooftop bar in the Medina of Marrakech, connect my phone to the public WIFI, and access my laptop in the hotel WIFI across town. Or production infrastructure on a highly secured server somewhere on the other side of the planet. All without compromising security, and all devices involved just pick the shortest physical link to each other. It's really pretty cool.
- frollogaston 2mo agoIt's not a given that you always have some server without NAT in the way. Even if you do, it might bottleneck or add latency to the two ends trying to talk. I've been there.
- dannyw 2mo agoIf you ever connect over a mobile hotspot, then you need NAT traversal. And if you want something that "just works" across various network environments, you need NAT traversal.