Please include instructions of what it is and how to use it

[numfin]

Sorry for writing here, since I don't see GitHub “discussions” page.

Currently, it's unclear on how to use pylon. From what I understood, it helps to access other zerotier devices without installing zerotier client.

But i didn't figure out how to do it:

• i started refract <ZT_NETWORK_ID> --listen-addr 0.0.0.0 --listen-port 1080 with generated via (zerotier-idtool) env ZT_PYLON_SECRET_KEY on host network
• i started http server on one of the nodes
• i set my proxy to socks5://0.0.0.0:1080
• infinite loading and console says:

  zero-pylon-1  |         pylon.cpp:000390:             proxy_server: Listening for connections via LAN on 0.0.0.0:1080
  zero-pylon-1  |         pylon.cpp:000391:             proxy_server: Listening for connections via ZeroTier network on 0.0.0.0:1080
  zero-pylon-1  |         pylon.cpp:000452:             proxy_server: Accepted connection from 127.0.0.1
  zero-pylon-1  |         pylon.cpp:000320:    add_proxy_client_conn: 0x0x55fa4c19cec0 New connection added to slot 0
  zero-pylon-1  |         pylon.cpp:000471:        handle_proxy_conn: 0x0x55fa4c19cec0 Connection request from LAN to ZeroTier network
  zero-pylon-1  |         pylon.cpp:000573:        handle_proxy_conn: 0x0x55fa4c19cec0 RX read (639) from client
  zero-pylon-1  |         pylon.cpp:000794:        handle_proxy_conn: 0x0x55fa4c19cec0 Closing connection
  zero-pylon-1  |         pylon.cpp:000798:        handle_proxy_conn: 0x0x55fa4c19cec0 waiting for IO threads to stop
  zero-pylon-1  |         pylon.cpp:000452:             proxy_server: Accepted connection from 127.0.0.1

  And nothing else.

Am i doing something wrong?

[inzi]

I really can't tell from the documentation either. Do we run the reflect and refract?

For instance, I have a zerotierone client on a router that's using t-mobile business 5g - which means, no UDP.

Peers tells me it relaying via TCP to other nodes on my network. At least, I am pretty sure that's what it's telling me - I see leaf relay entries, and planet direct entries.

Thus, I spun up a docker instance on linode to try and get everything going through my own pylon. Followed the directions and got it setup, I think?

If I do a netzero-cli info -j, I see my node's information, and config.settings allowTcpFallbackRelay is true, forceTcpRelay is true, and tcpFallbackRelay is the IP of my linode on port 443.

so... now what? How do I secure my linode box so only my network reflects off of it?

Is the point to start both reflect, and refract, so tcp traffic from my client via t-mobile hits the reflect, which connects to the refract, the pipes the data onto my network?

I get that it's a socks5 proxy, but how to implement is vague. I'm going to dig around and see if there are forum posts or something that describe this.