ekzhang/bore
🕳 bore is a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost
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[](https://github.com/ekzhang/bore/actions) [](https://crates.io/crates/bore-cli) A modern, simple TCP tunnel in Rust that exposes local ports to a remote server, bypassing standard NAT connection firewalls. That's all it does: no more, and no less. This will expose your local port at localhost:8000 to the public internet at bore.pub:, where the port number is assigned randomly. Similar to localtunnel and ngrok, except bore is intended to be a highly efficient, unopinionated tool for forwarding TCP traffic that is simple to install and easy to self-host, with no frills attached. (bore totals about 400 lines of safe, async Rust code and is trivial to set up — just run a single binary for the client and server.) bore is packaged as a Homebrew core formula. bore is available in the AUR as bore. bore is available in the gentoo-zh overlay. Otherwise, the easiest way to install bore is from prebuilt binaries. These are available on…
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- bore
- Installation
- macOS
- Linux
- Arch Linux
- Gentoo Linux
- Binary Distribution
- Cargo
- Docker
- Detailed Usage
- Local Forwarding
- Self-Hosting
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What this repository does
🕳 bore is a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost
Repository facts
- Owner
- ekzhang
- Primary language
- Rust
- Stars
- 11,571
- Forks
- 532
- Open issues + pull requests
- 18
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2022-04-04T02:47:54.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-02-04T18:00:26.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: cli, localhost, networking, proxy, rust, self-hosted, tcp, tunnel
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