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    🕳 bore is a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost

    cli
    networking
    self-hosted
    localhost
    proxy
    rust
    tcp
    tunnel
    Rust
    MIT
    11.6K stars
    530 forks
    60 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 7, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 515 days ago, with 21 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Creates simple TCP tunnels to expose local ports to remote servers, bypassing NAT firewalls.
    • Offers a minimal, efficient, and easy-to-self-host Rust-based tunneling tool with no unnecessary features.
    • Use for securely exposing a local development server to the public internet for testing webhooks or APIs.
    • Use for self-hosting a private TCP tunnel server to control access and avoid third-party dependencies.
    • Use for forwarding TCP traffic in environments where firewall or NAT traversal is required without complex setup.

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present

    Watch-outs

    • No commits in the last six months (last push Feb 2026).

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    From the README

    A modern, simple TCP tunnel in Rust that exposes local ports to a remote server, bypassing standard NAT connection firewalls. That's all it does: no more, and no less.

    This will expose your local port at localhost:8000 to the public internet at bore.pub:<PORT>, where the port number is assigned randomly.

    Similar to localtunnel and ngrok, except bore is intended to be a highly efficient, unopinionated tool for forwarding TCP traffic that is simple to install and easy to self-host, with no frills attached.

    (bore totals about 400 lines of safe, async Rust code and is trivial to set up — just run a single binary for the client and server.)

    bore is packaged as a Homebrew core formula.

    Excerpt from the ekzhang/bore README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 29: +12

    +199 stars over 88 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +12 on Aug 29.

    Forks

    530+16

    Open issues

    18+4

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