Show HN: Firewall-friendly tunnel service to manage your SSH devices(ondevice.io)
ondevice.io
Show HN: Firewall-friendly tunnel service to manage your SSH devices
https://ondevice.io/
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I move quite often between different offices and it's quite a hassle to always ask the ICT departments for VPN access (It takes a very long time). And it is especially annoying when IP addresses change dynamically and the DNS is not working properly. Since I use ondevice I have always access to all my machines. They only need web access. Very convenient.
Already using it for VNC!
The main idea is to have an easy way to SSH into your devices from anywhere, without the headaches of NAT traversal. Since it simply tunnels SSH, traffic is encrypted and SSH authenticated. On top of that, there's an additional 'service-side' authentication layer (so only you can access your devices). And you can do port forwarding, rsync and all the other fun stuff SSH provides.
The traffic is tunneled using websockets over HTTPS. The server side is protocol agnostic though and there are plans to add other stuff (VNC, HTTP, ...). The client is written in Python and hosted on github [1]
I'll stick around here for a while and try to answer your questions.
[1]: https://github.com/ondevice/ondevice-client