tolocal VS awesome-tunneling

Compare tolocal vs awesome-tunneling and see what are their differences.

tolocal

self-hosted reverse proxy from public dns domain to localhost (by nelsonenzo)

awesome-tunneling

List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting. (by anderspitman)
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tolocal

Posts with mentions or reviews of tolocal. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-22.
  • Show HN: DIY Ngrok Alternative
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2023
    Always love these. If you wanted something more automated to spin it up/down in AWS, checkout https://github.com/nelsonenzo/tolocal
  • Tailscale Funnel
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2022
  • Ngrok Alternatives
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2022
    i'll need to open a pull request for [tolocal](https://github.com/nelsonenzo/tolocal) :). It's clunky because it requires node and terraform and AWS, but all your stuff is self hosted and can be e2e encrypted, costs almost nothing, can be used with real domain names, etc. I would like to make it all JS at some point (the actual terraform is minimal), but it's hard to see why when Cloudflare Tunnel is a thing now.

awesome-tunneling

Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-tunneling. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-20.
  • Portr: Open-Source Ngrok Alternative
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Apr 2024
    https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
  • Can You Grok It – Hacking Together Your Own Dev Tunnel Service
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2024
    awesome-tunneling lists a number of ngrok alternatives: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

    - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39754786

    - FWIU headscale works with the tailscale client and supports MagicDNS

  • Do You Need IPv4 Anymore?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2024
    There are a whole bunch of alternatives too - https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling. I will advocate for zrok.io as I work on its parent project, OpenZiti. zrok is open source and has a free SaaS as well as more built in security.
  • Reverst: Reverse Tunnels in Go over HTTP/3 and QUIC
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2024
    https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling. Seems similar to zrok.io, ngrok, cloudflare tunnels, tailscale funnels and zrok although you're using http/3 explicitly.

    Personally I work on two similar projects you might want to check out: zrok and OpenZiti. Similar projects, but zrok is closest to what you did here.

  • Portr – open-source ngrok alternative designed for teams
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Apr 2024
    Thanks for the history. I maintain this list[0], and wasn't aware of OG localtunnel, likely because there's a somewhat newer and now more popular project with the same name[1]. You appear to be correct on timing. Here's the earliest commits on GitHub for each of the projects:

    OG localtunnel (2010): https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel/tree/fb82920d9d3e538...

    Other localtunnel (2012): https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel/tree/93d62b9dbb9f...

    ngrok (2012): https://github.com/inconshreveable/ngrok/tree/8f4795ecac7f92...

    I'll see that OG localtunnel gets added to the list for posterity.

    [0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

    [1]: https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel

  • Tunnelmole, an ngrok alternative (open source)
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2024
    I haven't tried vscode forwarding. What features does it have that are missing from most of the options on the list[0]?

    If you want a nice GUI for remote managing maybe check out one of my tools, boringproxy

    [0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

  • JIT WireGuard
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2024
    I maintain this list:

    https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

    Your use case sounds interesting and there may be a tool out there that will do it, but I can't quite wrap my head around your description of how everything is connected and what runs where with your current setup.

    I agree with sibling that my main question is what prevents you from using SSHFS or similar?

  • Hesitating between Tailscale Funnel / Cloudflare tunnel and others
    1 project | /r/Tailscale | 11 Dec 2023
    I'm starting to try to get into Cloudflare tunnel, Tailscale funnel and other alternatives. What I need is my services to be accessible without any installation client-side, and I'm unsure what services provide this. I also looked at solutions like BoringProxy, TunnelMole from this page : https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling My goal is to have my current domain rented at OVH pointing to my server to make it as much like before as possible.
  • My ISP doesn't allow port forwarding. What are my options ?
    1 project | /r/HomeNetworking | 10 Dec 2023
    Here's a list of options to get around CGNAT: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
  • Would we still create Nebula today?
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2023
    We have a section for overlay networks on the tunneling list[0] I maintain. This is a very interesting space with some excellent software.

    I certainly have my gripes about the closed nature of Slack itself, in particular using a closed protocol when the model is clearly "federated" between multiple servers internally. That said, the contribution of something on the scale and quality of Nebula back to the open source community is hard to argue with.

    [0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling#overlay-ne...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tolocal and awesome-tunneling you can also consider the following projects:

ngrok-c - ngrok client for c language,Due to the use of GO ngrok language development, porting to embedded devices some inconvenience, such as openwrt, so use C language rewrite a client. Very mini, the need to support polarssl library.

cloudflared - Cloudflare Tunnel client (formerly Argo Tunnel)

jtunnel-netty-client - Create Tunnels and expose local servers to the internet

frp - A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.

golink - A private shortlink service for tailnets

Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System

tunnel - DIY ngrok alternative

yunohost - YunoHost is an operating system aiming to simplify as much as possible the administration of a server. This repository corresponds to the core code, written mostly in Python and Bash.

natpunch-go - NAT puncher for Wireguard mesh networking.

SirTunnel - Minimal, self-hosted, 0-config alternative to ngrok. Caddy+OpenSSH+50 lines of Python.

TunSafe - Source code of the TunSafe client

remotemoe - tunnels to localhost and other ssh plumbing