Comment on Access home server from anywhere

onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Eris@l.os33.co ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is what I do and I’ve wondered why people always shill for tailscale or cloud flare tunneling, seems like way too much extra bs for the same thing

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• ExploratrixLunae@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I've beeb looking into a similar setup and I didn't know SSH could do this kind of tunneling. Thanks for the tip! I'm going to consider using it.

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  • onlinepersona@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m not sure what you mean by tunnel, but SSH allows a “secure shell” aka an encrypted connection to a shell on a device. Tailscale, Headscale, and others are VPNs, which means they allow making it seem as if your computer is in the same (private) network as that of the server - but in order to have a shell on the server, you’ll still need SSH.

    To my knowledge, adding a VPN to open a secure shell on the server is unnecessary and has no security benefits.

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