Blink + MacOs (through tailscale)

[kevinrobayna]

Hello! Has anyone managed to access a web server on the ipad from the remote machine?

For example on my remote server i have a web server running on port 3000 and i want to see the web on the ipad's browser.

I understand this has nothing to do with blink and it's mostly mac and some default firewall config but i figured one of you must have seen this before 😂

Currently getting nothing even when using the ip or the magic dns name or the special url from tailscale so i have assumed its my mac not allowing the connection

[carloscabanero]

You have two options to do this. The first one is with Tailscale. You can expose your web server on the Tailscale interface so all nodes in the network can access it at that port - by default servers usually only expose the server at the "localhost" interface, so you need to figure out how to change that with the framework you use. The other one is using Blink tunnels: https://docs.blink.sh/advanced/advanced-ssh#tunnels

[kevinrobayna]

well that's where my server is running on but even if there's nothing running there it keeps failing with the same error

sudo lsof -nP -i4TCP:3000

going to restart ipad just in case but i doubt it will have an effect

[kevinrobayna]

Can confirm same issue even after restarting everything and confirming nothing running on the specific port

[kevinrobayna]

uhm 🤔

python3 -m http.server 8080

this silly server worked!!! ok then this is def a rails issue somehow?

[kevinrobayna]

rails way => ./bin/rails server -b 0.0.0.0

if anyone comes here in the future. By default tailscale alone should be enough, no need to open a tunnel with blink. just try with the dummy python3 server and see if that works!

[carloscabanero]

Doing it through Tailscale is my favorite as well - they should promote this scenario a lot more. Just take into account that when you do 0.0.0.0 you are binding it to all your interfaces - not just the Tailscale one.