Yea, that is also what I thought. To bypass this, you would need something like Cloudflare Tunnels or setup a VPN on a VPS, that redirects traffic to your homeserver.
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towerful@programming.dev 7 months agoDoesn’t work if you are on CGNAT
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 7 months ago
dog@suppo.fi 7 months ago
See: Anything that can open ports. NAT of any kind tends to not allow opening ports.
towerful@programming.dev 7 months ago
Absolutely. However I feel like the whole thread needs extra clarification, considering the question OP posed.
Dynamic DNS isn’t a magic wand in the way a Reverse Proxy over VPN is.