Show HN: CRProxy is a simple and affordable ngrok alternative

Re:Show HN: CRProxy is a simple and affordable ngrok alterna... by antoniomika on Sunday June 26, 2022 @02:27PM (#31886513)

There are many (always) free alternatives out there which you can find in a fairly comprehensive list at awesome-tunneling [0]. I'd caution anyone as there's always risk with downloading a no sources available binary as well, but this looks like it could be another good option!

My favorite two projects currently in the tunneling space are sish [1] and bore [2]. sish is more full featured and utilizes ssh for handling proxies (disclaimer: I wrote sish) while bore maintains a client/server but all sources are available for both. They're written in Go and Rust respectively. There's even a publicly accessible instance of bore running. You should submit a PR to include CRProxy in the awesome-tunneling list, I know Anders might do that as well as he's normally around these parts :)

[0] https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

[1] https://github.com/antoniomika/sish

[2] https://github.com/ekzhang/bore

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Re:Show HN: CRProxy is a simple and affordable ngrok alterna... by roshanj on Sunday June 26, 2022 @03:38PM (#31887211)

Thank you for writing sish! We’ve been using sish as a self-hosted alternative to ngrok because of how easy and flexible it is to configure and because it allows us to tunnel to devices without installing any extra device-side software (since it uses ssh). I highly recommend it among all the other great projects on the awesome-tunneling list

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Re:Show HN: CRProxy is a simple and affordable ngrok alterna... by antoniomika on Sunday June 26, 2022 @11:31PM (#31890303)

Awesome, glad it’s useful! If there’s anything that could be better or weird issues, please do let me know!

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Re:Show HN: CRProxy is a simple and affordable ngrok alterna... by crproxy on Sunday June 26, 2022 @02:32PM (#31886571)

Thank you for letting me know.

I understand the issue with a closed-source client. It wouldn't be trivial to open source at the moment, but maybe there's a path to do it in the future.

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Re:Show HN: CRProxy is a simple and affordable ngrok alterna... by greatgib on Sunday June 26, 2022 @03:02PM (#31886853)

Sorry if it does not fit your business model, but in my opinion, it would be plainly stupid for anyone to download and run on his machine or server a closed source binary, especially when the goal is to give remote access through internet. And so that it is expected that this binary will open a direct pipe with the internet...

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Re:Show HN: CRProxy is a simple and affordable ngrok alterna... by lmc on Sunday June 26, 2022 @05:21PM (#31888112)

Literally any pre-compiled binary could do nefarious things... why make a big deal out of this one?

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Re:Show HN: CRProxy is a simple and affordable ngrok alterna... by greatgib on Monday June 27, 2022 @02:47PM (#31898916)

First, because if you are on a Linux distribution, you will tend to only take binaries from trusted sources like distribution repos that are imperfect but still audited and work on having reproducible builds.

Second because you can usually contained a closed source binary, let's say 'zoom' for example, but here the root goal is to open a pipe to the internet and give access to the console or local network, so it will be hard to check what it does and constrain it in normal operations.

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