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mewrcreatetoday at 5:08 PM0 repliesview on HN

We hit this exact problem bridging n8n Cloud to a local Ollama instance on a Mac Mini. Tried Cloudflare tunnels (502 errors), bore-cli (random ports on restart — unusable with multiple HTTP nodes), and ngrok (requires auth/signup).

Ended up on localtunnel with a fixed subdomain and keepalive script. It works but drops connections and requires a bypass-tunnel-reminder header on every request.

Key requirements for this use case: fixed/predictable URL so downstream services don't need reconfiguration, low latency for API calls, and auto-reconnect as a daemon. Would be interested to try Rustunnel if it supports fixed subdomains.