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by JosephRedfern 2540 days ago
I don't think that torrent trackers are analogous to this at all, unless I'm misunderstanding how it works. AFAIK, this is essentially a proxy:

you <-> hostyoself <-> someone else

where all data goes through hostyoself. This is analogous to ngrok, but at file-system level rather than TCP.