localtunnel: `lt` command hangs

Hi guys, localtunnel (v2.0.1) has been working fine for me for ages but this morning i’ve tried to open a tunnel and it just hangs:

lt -p 8080

Tried running on a different machine but same issue, also other colleagues have the same problem. There’s no log or error output alluding to the problem - could it be a server issue?

Edit: fix here

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Created 3 years ago
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I’ve got a fix, it works if you explicitly tell the CLI to use loca.lt:

> lt --host http://loca.lt --port 8080
your url is: https://fluffy-hound-8.loca.lt

What changed server-side that stopped loca.lt being used as the default tunnel server? Definitly wasn’t an npm update.

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nero120 on Mar 3, 2021

I try using this npx localtunnel --local-host domain.local --port 80 --subdomain customdomain and not work, yesterday it worked

Try --host http://loca.lt option

marcinciarka on Mar 3, 2021

@maganius can you please try again?

sigh someone from brazil is hammering the server with thousands of new subdomain requests at the moment. I guess I’ll be implementing a rate limiter + request delay middleware for when connection endpoint at some point this week.

TheBoroer on Mar 3, 2021

Hey everyone! It should be back up and running. There was a problem with certbot not auto-renewing the “localtunnel.me” ssl cert but it worked when I triggered it manually. ‘loca.lt’ certs worked just fine so you could always just continue using the --host https://loca.lt option like others said. loca.lt is just an alias for localtunnel.me and they’re both hosted by the same server 😃

TheBoroer on Mar 3, 2021

Working for me again now without needing the host option. Many thanks @TheBoroer for addressing the issue and in general for hosting the service!

nero120 on Mar 3, 2021