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		Ask HN: What are the main differences between "ngrok.com" vs. "xip.io"?
		1 point by albybisy on May 23, 2014 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

nmenglund on May 23, 2014 [–]

ngrok.com is a tunnel service, letting you connect - via ngrok - to computers that are otherwise not reachable from outside.

xip.io is a DNS service, it simply resolves DNS names to IP addresses without handling any of the actual traffic.

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