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j_m_b on May 31, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Combatting illegal abuses of ngrok

Honest question: Why would I pay for something like this when I can use the tunneling and proxy features of openssh for free aka 'ssh -NfD 5000 user@host.com'?

elithrar on May 31, 2014 [–]

NAT traversal, works easily on dynamic IPs without having to use another service, etc.

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