Cloudflare Tunnels: Exposing Services Without Opening Ports (and the Trade-Offs)

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000

There’s a particular dread that comes with port-forwarding something on your home router. You log into a web interface that hasn’t changed since the Blair government, you punch a hole through to a box on your LAN, and then you spend the next week wondering whether you’ve just invited the entire internet to find that one unpatched service. Carrier-grade NAT might mean you can’t forward ports at all, and a dynamic IP means you’re chasing DDNS updates on top of everything else.

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Cloudflare Tunnels: Exposing Services Without Opening Ports (and the Trade-Offs)