# What is a Quick Tunnel?

> A quick tunnel is a temporary localhost tunnel started with one command and no account, usually on a random public hostname.

Source: https://layerv.ai/glossary/quick-tunnel/

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# What is a Quick Tunnel?

Cloudflare uses the name for tunnels started with cloudflared tunnel --url, which get a random trycloudflare.com hostname that stops working when the process stops. Other services offer similar account-free tunnels over SSH.

Because they need no account and hand out disposable hostnames under a trusted domain, quick tunnels appear in published reports of malware delivery and phishing.

## How LayerV Implements This

Publishing with the qURL CLI also needs no account, but the app gets no public hostname. Access is a per-recipient link that is single-use by default and expires.

## Related

[Localhost Tunnel](https://layerv.ai/glossary/localhost-tunnel/) [Tunnel Interstitial](https://layerv.ai/glossary/tunnel-interstitial/) [Single-Use Link](https://layerv.ai/glossary/single-use-link/)

[Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives →](https://layerv.ai/compare/cloudflare-tunnel-alternatives/) [qURL vs Cloudflare Quick Tunnels →](https://layerv.ai/compare/qurl-vs-cloudflare-quick-tunnels/) [Research: Tunnel abuse ledger →](https://layerv.ai/research/tunnel-abuse-ledger/)



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