Show HN: Quick tunnels to localhost with one command and no binary download

Post by ghoshbishakh » Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 4:44 PM UTC

avinassh wrote: post #20

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Good point. It opens a SSH tunnel from Pinggy server to your localhost, such that the pinggy server can connect to only the port of your localhost that you specify in the command. The ssh port forwarding command is a standard one and your ssh client ensures that the access is restricted to the port you are specifically exposing. In other words, you are trusting your own system and your ssh client installation for sec…

What are the implications of SSHing into some random server? Could you also add some instructions on the kind of precautions one should take before ssh into pinggy

Post by ghoshbishakh » Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 4:53 PM UTC

keyme wrote: post #22

Very clever! This is the most hacky and elegant solution to this problem I've seen.

Post by ghoshbishakh » Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 5:34 PM UTC

keyme wrote: post #24

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Delighted to know you liked it! We are working on bringing more features and we are convinced that everything must work through this ssh tunnel.

Add a mode to share a file, again using SSH alone. Works together with "python3 -m http.server", obviously, but should be possible with SSH alone. This would be the first time since the invention of NATs one can share a file over the internet without uploading it anywhere or downloading any executable!

Post by ghoshbishakh » Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 6:25 PM UTC

maxcan wrote: post #26

Very cool. I switched to cloudflare tunnels from ngrok a while back after having some issues with ngrok. However, CF Tunnels were far from ergonomic or easy to use ( https://www.maxcantor.com/blog/2021-10-15-ngrok-to-cloudflar... ). I'd love a simple tool that fills the gap and I think this is it.

Post by mkenny » Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 6:30 PM UTC