Show HN: Packetriot – Expose Local Services to the Internet

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7 pointsjborak4 comments

Hey HN, this is the author, thanks for checking out my project and any feedback. As I built this I found alternatives, here are some differentiators:

* access logs & metrics - these types of systems obscure this info (src IPs, etc...)

* system health checks - probes if the destination (upstream service) is available, if not, we'll email you

* self-hosted - want to host the edge server software on your own, you can do that

* specification - the plan is to publish the protocol and spec so others can write clients or integrations

Glad to help with questions, cheers.

So I can use this to run servers at home without my provider throttling or detecting them? How does traffic from this appear to them?

It's built exactly for that. The tunnel is established in reverse over a websocket, so outgoing traffic from your PC is TCP:443 which looks like normal TLS traffic.

I've been using this for almost 6 months and haven't seen any throttling. Your Netflix, YouTube or any other streaming traffic will dwarf what bandwidth you consume, unless we're talking terabytes...

awesome!

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