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📣 Imustaskforhelp

SSH Based Tunnel FOSS/Better Alternative to Pinggy?


Basically pinggy.io allows you to use ssh to host a tunnel. I want to use something like this to host my minecraft server / something general But I like open source software and I was wondering if there are some alternatives

these are non foss options serveo.net localhost.run

there used to be a public instance of

https://github.com/fasmide/remotemoe but now its shutdown :( (Please come back)

there is https://ssh-j.com/ but it says "Users are encouraged to use it for SSH exposure only, to preserve end-to-end encryption. No public ports, only in-SSH connectivity"

So what are some other open source alternatives or any opinions?

  👤 solardev Accepted Answer ✓
Are you just trying to expose a port in your computer through your router for friends to connect to? What is on the other end of the tunnel? If it's just an open Minecraft server for anyone to connect to by IP address (or dynamic DNS), you should be able to just configure your router to forward that port to your particular machine.

Apologies if I'm misunderstanding you. It's not clear what the tunnel is supposed to do in this case.

👤 tra3
You still need need a public end point to host your tunnel. Is an internet facing bastion host with ssh not what you're looking for?
👤 sandreas
Why not just rent a root server and use WireGuard / OpenVPN for your trusted clients? Sounds like you want a Virtual Private Network and SSH is only one (pretty restricted) way to do this...