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Re:Cloudflare Tunnel – Generate a live updating URL to any l... by ithkuil on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:19AM (#28875243)
I made a tunnel service that doesn't require account creation and is suitable for automated tools that need to spin up a web interface for non-routable networks. The hostname is derived from the public key used to authenticate your end of the tunnel:

https://github.com/mkmik/udig

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Re:Cloudflare Tunnel – Generate a live updating URL to any l... by vineyardmike on Friday October 15, 2021 @02:45PM (#28881455)
> Tunnel IDs are base32 encoded hashes of the public key (technically a multihash encoded as a base32 multibase).

Wow very cool! Using a known value is a great thing, I can totally see using this.

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Re:Cloudflare Tunnel – Generate a live updating URL to any l... by southerntofu on Friday October 15, 2021 @06:32AM (#28876267)
That looks cool. What's the difference of your solution with standard VPN or SSH tunneling?
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