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Cake day: October 16th, 2023

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  • In short cloudflare is both a DNS server and a reverse proxy. When you add a DNS record in there and mark it as proxy cloudflare will publish the DNS record but will instead give its own IP as the destination.

    When a visitor enters your URL instead of getting your IP they will be given Cloudflare’s IP. The visitor will then send their web request to Cloudflare. Cloudflare will then send that request to your actual IP.

    That’s the basic version. However, Cloudflare’s position as a proxy gives it the ability to inspect and act on traffic as a WAF, blocking traffic that meetings the IDS/IPS rules.



  • My wife and I each take a lot of random photos and screenshots and things we don’t want to share with each other (and we probably don’t want to be bothered with each other’s random stuff), so we don’t want to just do something like turn on Partner Sharing on Google Photos.

    You can specify what gets shared with partner sharing. My wife and I have partner sharing set up so that it automatically shares photos of our kids with each other but not anything else.



  • Cloudflare tunnels being unsafe for exposing your locally hosted services to the web

    That’s the pout of Cloudflare Tunnels. It’s a reverse proxy.

    Cloudflare Auth (zero trust) can lock down the tunnel so only certain people can access it.

    I want to clarify something though. Cloudflare Tunnels IS SAFE. But if you choose to use it in a not safe way that’s not the fault of the tunnel.

    It’s like putting on a bicycle helmet and then running on the freeway and wondering why your leg gets broken after getting hit by a car.

    “but I was wearing my helmet” great, but that wasn’t the point of the helmet.