cloudflared

Cloudflare is a tunneling daemon software that provides a command line client for Tunnel. It transmits incoming traffic by positioning between the cloudflare network and the source server, eliminating the requirement to open it on the firewall. macOS can be installed as a binary file, package, or image through platforms such as Linux, Windows, and Docker.

CL

cloudflare · DNS & Ad Blocking

STARS16.4K
FORKS1.5K
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS135
VERSION2026.7.3
UPDATEDtoday
dnsdohcloudflareTunnelApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: NextDNS, Cisco Umbrella, AdGuard DNS

What can it do?
  • Forward traffic over the Cloudflare network to source servers without opening a port on the firewall
  • You provide access to tunnel-protected origin sources for Layer 4 TCP traffic such as SSH and RDP
  • You install on different operating systems with standard binary files, Docker images, or package managers
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (574)
User reviews
  • ↓ NegativeHacker News

    Tunnel Vision: CloudflareD AbuseD in the Wild

    “"Winning" and "Losing" are not a great framework for this sort of analysis. In that binary framework, there's no difference between "1 bit of sensitive data was leaked" and "the medical and financial records of every person ever, nuclear launch codes, and the backdoor that…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Tunnel Vision: CloudflareD AbuseD in the Wild

    “> If an attacker is capable of installing apps on your server... you've already lost. You're right, but cloudflared is a whole lot easier to get running than previous RATs, and attackers don't need to operate their own c&c infrastructure - you can't defend yourself from such…”

My note

Alternative pages

More in: DNS & Ad Blocking