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		birdyrooster on April 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My NAS exposes itself over the internet without pe... If you want to host servers on your network then you need firewall rules, but if you are just a client then the firewalls implicitly allow the responses to client traffic through.

dijit on April 3, 2021 [–]

Only if it’s dedicated server infrastructure (as mentioned) games like call of duty will not work.

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