There's more to localhost than 127.0.0.1

The loopback interface is most familiarly encountered as 127.0.0.1 and is referred to as the local loopback address. This address is present on every IPv4 host and is given the hostname localhost. Did you know there's ~16 million other addresses that applications can also listen? This means that you can have multiple local services on the same port; as long as they are listening on a dfiferent address. The local loopback address is not a single address, it's the range 127.0.0.1 - 127.255.255.254.…

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sshuttle - a VPN for the lazy

sshuttle is a Python based script that allows you to tunnel connections through SSH in a far more efficient way then traditional ssh proxying. By far the greatest perk of sshuttle is that it requires no installation on the server side. As long as you have an SSH server (with python installed) you're good to go. Because it inserts iptables entries, the client running sshuttle must be root however no special privileges are needed on the server. How to use it Install $ sudo pip install sshuttle # you may need to install # python-pip Tunnel to all networks (0.0.0.0/…

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