I’m setting up a self hosted Minecraft server and all I have left to do is setup port forwarding. I’m not exactly experienced with this so I was wondering how it works so I understand if I need to “turn off” the port every time after using the server or not and how the “dynamic” ip stuff works
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Basically, most home internet connections use a technology called NAT to allow more than one device to share a single public IP address.
One of the restrictions of NAT is that communication has to originate from inside, because the router basically creates a two way tunnel to talk out of, and back into from the webapp.
Port forwarding is used when you need to explicitly open up that forwarding for everyone. Since you’re hosting a server, people are trying to connect in to you, so you have to be listening for them.
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