[stunnel-users] Use stunnel through firewall for home Web server?

Sat Jan 24 04:12:26 CET 2009

At 11:11 PM +0100 1/23/09, Bill Eldridge wrote:
>Tom Shaw wrote:
>>At 7:46 PM +0100 1/23/09, Bill Eldridge wrote:
>>>Michael Renner wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Friday 23 January 2009, Bill Eldridge wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I was interested in whether there's a simple
>>>>>way to have stunnel redirect traffic from a public Web browser/port
>>>>>to my home Web browser behind my DSL firewall
>>>>>(no ports opened/forwarded for incoming connections on the router,
>>>>>only outgoing-initiated)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Moin,
>>>>
>>>>it is not clear to what you want to do. From a public web browser 
>>>>to your home
>>>>web browser?
>>>>
>>>>Can you clarify your setup?
>>>>
>>>
>>>As an example if I run Apache on my home machine, I'd like it to 
>>>start the tunnel when
>>>I turn it on, have it automatically set up stunnel to a Linux box 
>>>I have on the public net,
>>>and have anything to port 8090 on the Linux box get passed to my 
>>>home machine 8080.
>>>
>>
>>Easier to use ssh to port forward in this instance, IMHO. But why? 
>>Seems like just port mapping on the NAT router would work just as 
>>well and with no different effect on security.
>Because I won't be able to add ssh or access the router in a number 
>of cases where I need this,
>but I believe I'll have access to stunnel in many/most cases. 
>Necessity is the mother of invention.

Maybe I am all wet but is seems to me that a) if you can put stunnel 
at both ends you can put ssh at both ends - saying that you would 
have access to stunnel and not ssh doesn't make any sense, b) why 
wouldn't you have access to your own router?

Tom