So I'm over here getting two domains setup w/ one public IP. I know I can use pfSense to route the traffic, and/or reverse proxies thru nginx or apache2 [altho its not as easy when yer routing traffic to another VM/local ip], but for one of my domains I recently found that just setting up a Cloudflare tunnel








































































































































































































































































































































































































































was super easy and gets the job done w/o exposing any ports or IPs...

Sure, I have to let Cloudflare into my trust circle - and know that they're just itching to sell me more 'features', especially if the website ever got any








































































































































































































































































































































































































































real traffic... but seeing how easy it worked got me thinking;

The BBS is just an IP/port, yea... wouldn't a Cloudflare tunnel to a domain be a good way for new sysops to not expose their own networks? I haven't done it, or even tried as of yet, but it seems that the CF tunnels have all the tools needed to open up the different ports, or any for that matter, that a BBS uses...



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Re: bbSes over a Cloudflare tunnel?
By: paulie420 to All on Wed Jun 07 2023 09:10 pm

The BBS is just an IP/port, yea... wouldn't a Cloudflare tunnel to a domain be a good way for new sysops to not expose their own networks? I haven't done it, or even tried as of yet, but it seems that the CF tunnels have all the tools needed to open up the different ports, or any for that matter, that a BBS uses...

IMHO, even better is ZeroTier, and its available on TQW... :)

With ZeroTier we control the network - we'll actually I have to push the "let user join this network button", but once done, you'll see everybody else on the








































































































































































































































































































































































































































same network.

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the network, so on the TQW one, it will only pass TCP 23,24554, so no worry that somebody could try and SSH into your box :)


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IMHO, even better is ZeroTier, and its available on TQW... :)

With ZeroTier we control the network - we'll actually I have to push the "let user join this network button", but once done, you'll see everybody else on the same network.

And just so this doesnt freak anybody out, ZeroTier has built in firewalling in the network, so on the TQW one, it will only pass TCP 23,24554, so no worry that somebody could try and SSH into your box :)

Holy ish - I never put one and one together months ago when mL was talking about Zerotier over TQW. Got it. Yea; I've looked at Zerotier and ... not enigma; the other one thats a headscale client/server.



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