Hi,
my new ISP has sadly put me behing a CGNAT which is why I set up a Cloudflared tunnel to still access my Systems. Its working like a charm for any HTTP / HTTPS System.
But I am having trouble with my StorJ Systems.
When setting up the tunnel like above I can access a empty page that loads or if I switch to HTTPS I can access this:
So I am connecting to something via the internet. However in the Node configuration I am forced to provide a port. I have tried setting it to 443 as that seems to also load a blank page for me but I just get the following errors in the logs:
For the tunnel itself I have the following options: HTTP, HTTPS, UNIX, TCP, SSH, RDP, UNIX+TLS, SMB, HTTP_STATUS, Bastion
Anyone have an idea on how to at least get TCP up and running? I am trying to figure out the situation with the ISP or switch back to one without CGNAT but till then I would like to get the nodes back online and working.
On the free plan CloudFlare tunnels will only route HTTP/S traffic. You need to spend money for CloudFlare Spectrum of you want to route general TCP/UDP traffic to the general public.
Those options you see there are for other clients that are also using cloudflared as clients. For example you can use CloudFlare tunnels to host private Minecraft servers if everyone installed cloudflared, but you cannot use it so that any random user can input the host/port to access the server without paying for Spectrum.
Thanks for the explanation that clears up a lot. Seems like I will need to find a different service with reasonable prices / free for TCP/UDP forwarding
You won’t find anything free that will let you route tens of terabytes of traffic per months. But there are plenty of commercial VPN services that do a decent job at this, albeit at limited bandwidth. I can recommend AirVPN I started using myself for nodes that can’t be directly contacted, after the monthly traffic exceeded 10TB allowance on oracle VPSs
Yeah I am sure. But it was just meant as a temporary solution till I can sort out the ISP problem. Good news: My ISP just gave me a free static IP and now all works perfectly again. So thankfully I don’t have to keep looking for ways around CGNAT
