365 Networking · Proxy

The front is public. The origin is not.

365Proxy is the front layer of the 365 design. Public traffic reaches a front layer and never the machines that hold the sites; the origin stays off the public internet and is reached only over a private link. It is internal infrastructure, not a product for customers.

Nothing behind the front answers the public.

Design 365Proxy is a design; it is not running. The same principle already carries two live services, shown below.

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The design Design

One public face, one private way in

Three rules make the whole design. Anything that breaks one of them is not 365Proxy.

  1. One public face

    Visitors only ever reach the front layer. It is the one address the public knows.

  2. A private way in

    The front reaches the origin over a private encrypted link, and only over that link.

  3. An origin without an address

    The origin is never published and accepts nothing from the public internet.

The 365Proxy design, not running: visitors reach the public front layer over HTTPS; the front reaches the origin only over a private encrypted link; the origin is never addressed from the public internet Visitors HTTPS PUBLIC The front layer the one public address private encrypted link PRIVATE The origin never addressed directly a direct request from outside: nothing answers
The design as written. It is not running.

Where the principle runs today Live

Already at work, under other names

365Proxy itself is a design, but its rule already protects two services that run today.

  • The Snowdaddy Security console

    A household reaches its camera console through the Snowdaddy edge. The machine at the site connects outward over an encrypted tunnel, and nothing at the site listens for the public. Snowdaddy Security

  • Dove, behind 365Entertainment

    The creator platform reaches its assistant over a private encrypted link that ends inside the model's container, so the link leads to the model and to nothing else on that server. 365Phoenix

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