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Understand tun-el in 5 minutes.

Everything you need to expose localhost securely — from a one-line install to the wire-level protocol spec and self-hosting your own edge node.

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AGPL-3.0

Self-host tun-el in 10 minutes

Run your own tunld edge on any VPS. Point a wildcard DNS record at it, and you own the entire tunnel path end to end.

Get started with tun-el

install.sh

# Install the server daemon
go install github.com/tun-el/tunld@latest

# Run the edge with your wildcard domain
tunld serve \
  --root-domain=tunnel.example.dev \
  --tls-addr=:443