I think you mean "pagekite" -- and it's great! and already packaged for debian, where it installs and runs perfectly in my experience (on a Raspberry Pi)
the author of pagekite also shares many FreedomBox goals, I believe so +1 :-) hamish cunningham http://gate.ac.uk/hamish/ http://pi.gate.ac.uk/ On 1 November 2013 09:01, Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hos should we make the services on a Freedombox on a non-public > network / behind NAT publicly available? The pagekide system, > requested into Debian in <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/610358 > is one > complelling idea. It allow one to get any port forwarded from > somewhere to somewhere else, and optionally buy services from the > company behind pagekide.net to have the end point hosted there. And I > suspect we should try to get it into Debian for this purpose. Any > volunteers to package it for Debian? > > Another, which I tested yesterday, is to use SSH to open a reverse > tunnel. To get it working, pick a machine with a public IP address, > and add GatewayPorts clientspecified to sshd_config: > > pere@www:~$ grep GatewayPorts /etc/ssh/sshd_config > GatewayPorts clientspecified > pere@www:~$ > > Next, log in from a machine on the non-public network to the machine > with a public IP adress using the -R statement to open a listening > port on the public machine to a machine on the non-public net like > this: > > ssh -R *:80:non-public-host:80 root@public-host > > If you lack root-access on public-host machine, you can pick a port > above 1024 (for example 8080) like this: > > ssh -R *:8080:non-public-host:80 root@public-host > > The anyone on the internet can visit <URL: http://public-host/ > and > watch the web pages available on <URL: http://non-public-host/ >. > This can be done for any service on the non-public host, by specifying > multiple -R statements on the ssh line. Requiring root access on the > public-host machine is a disadvantage, though. > > Are there other useful options? Any one got an opinion? > > -- > Happy hacking > Petter Reinholdtsen > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss -- Hamish Cunningham http://pi.gate.ac.uk/ http://gate.ac.uk/hamish/ Professor of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
