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I have Server A running at home in a Carrier-Grade NAT environment. Due to this I cannot open a port directly in my router. I also have Server B on a cloud hosting provider, which has a static public IP address that can have ports opened to. Both machines run Ubuntu linux. So far the best solution for me was SSH Tunneling, but it comes with a performance dra
A development workflow uses ngrok HTTP tunnels to expose a local service at a stable public URL for webhook and callback testing. The goal is to keep one reserved domain bound to the same local endpoint across restarts, with TLS handled entirely by ngrok's automatic certificate provisioning. The open point is how ngrok's domain naming transition affects that
Consistent Webhook Endpoints Creating a repeatable development environment often requires a persistent public URL to avoid updating webhook configurations in external APIs every time the local agent restarts. The ngrok Tunneling feature supports static domains to solve this volatility. Configuration Constraints While the ngrok.yml configuration file allows f
Asked · 15 Jan 2026, 16:54 UTC
answered · 20 Jan 2026, 12:06 UTC
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