Board:   [WWIVnet] WWIV Networking
Subject: Cloudflare - Tunnel
From:    Weatherman #1 @1 (Mark)
Date:    Sat Dec 17, 2022 08:57

TO:  ALL

I figured I would post some info on my #1 favorite and innovative tech company,
Cloudflare.

Around 6 or so months ago I was testing Cloudflare's free ZeroTrust Tunnel for
use of self hosting an Exchange server.  Since I already host tons of stuff on
my single external IP, I am running into port issues in some cases.  The
Cloudflare tunnel solves that issue.

Basically, it is a fancy VPN tunnel with security features, and acts as a
reverse proxy to the inside services that you allow.  Very cool stuff!

For instance, you could run (3) BBS systems - all using tcp/23 internally, and
give them different DNS names and users could connect to all three without
needing port forwards, redirects, etc.  Even if you don't have a static IP or
if you are behind a carrier grade NAT, it will still work!

This removes the potential port issues if you are running a single IP like me.
No need to assign web servers different ports.  All can be tcp/80 - just
different DNS names to the outside world and the reverse proxy inside the
tunnel will do the mapping to the internal IP and port.

Really cool stuff, and it is free for non-business use.  They have some amazing
products with their development space using workers, etc.  I'm not a coder, but
if I was that would be very interesting to me to deploy apps to the edge
dynamically and in realtime.

Ok, enough morning geeking out for now.. :)

- Mark

:.:       Weather Station BBS · telnet://bbs.weather-station.org         :.:
:.:    http://www.weather-station.org/bbs · Bel Air, Maryland - USA      :.:
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