Choose your own subdomain #

You can choose your own subdomain instead of relying on a randomly assigned one by setting the --bind-random-subdomains option to false and then selecting a subdomain by prepending it to the remote port specifier:

ssh -p 2222 -R foo:80:localhost:8080 tuns.sh

If the selected subdomain is not taken, it will be assigned to your connection.

Websocket Support #

The service supports multiplexing connections over HTTP/HTTPS with WebSocket support. Just assign a remote port as port 80 to proxy HTTP traffic and 443 to proxy HTTPS traffic. If you use any other remote port, the server will listen to the port for TCP connections, but only if that port is available.

Allowlist IPs #

Whitelisting IP ranges or countries is also possible. Whole CIDR ranges can be specified with the --whitelisted-ips option that accepts a comma-separated string like "192.30.252.0/22,185.199.108.0/22". If you want to whitelist a single IP, use the /32 range.

To whitelist countries, use --whitelisted-countries with a comma-separated string of countries in ISO format (for example, "pt" for Portugal). You'll also need to set --geodb to true.

Custom domains #

sish supports allowing users to bring custom domains to the service, but SSH key auth is required to be enabled. To use this feature, you must setup TXT and CNAME/A records for the domain/subdomain you would like to use for your forwarded connection. The CNAME/A record must point to the domain or IP that is hosting sish. The TXT record must be for _sish.customdomain and contain an ssh key fingerprint.

You must use the fingerprint of the key used for logging into the server. You can set multiple TXT records and sish will check all of them to ensure at least one is a match. You can retrieve your key fingerprint by running:

1ssh-keygen -lf ~/.ssh/id_rsa | awk '{print $2}'

If you trust the users connecting to sish and would like to allow any domain to be used with sish (bypassing verification), there are a few added flags to aid in this. This is especially useful when adding multiple wildcard certificates to sish in order to not need to automatically provision Let's Encrypt certs. To disable verfication, set --bind-any-host=true, which will allow and subdomain/domain combination to be used. To only allow subdomains of a certain subset of domains, you can set --bind-hosts to a comma separated list of domains that are allowed to be bound.

To add certficates for sish to use, configure the --https-certificate-directory flag to point to a dir that is accessible by sish. In the directory, sish will look for a combination of files that look like name.crt and name.key. name can be arbitrary in either case, it just needs to be unique to the cert and key pair to allow them to be loaded into sish.

Load balancing #

sish can load balance any type of forwarded connection, but this needs to be enabled when starting sish using the --http-load-balancer, --tcp-load-balancer, and --alias-load-balancer flags. Let's say you have a few edge nodes (raspberry pis) that are running a service internally but you want to be able to balance load across these devices from the outside world. By enabling load balancing in sish, this happens automatically when a device with the same forwarded TCP port, alias, or HTTP subdomain connects to sish. Connections will then be evenly distributed to whatever nodes are connected to sish that match the forwarded connection.