this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2025
57 points (96.7% liked)

Selfhosted

61409 readers
376 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

Detailed Rules Post

  1. Be civil.

  2. No spam.

  3. Posts are to be related to self-hosting.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or readme if you're providing a link.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title.

  6. No trolling.

  7. Promotion posts require active participation, with an account that is at least 30 days old. F/LOSS without a paywall has exceptions, with requirements. See the rules link for details. Tags [CBH] or [AIP] are required, see the links in Rule 8 for details.

  8. AI-related discussions and AI-involved promotional posts have additional requirements for tagging, as noted in Rule 7 and the AI & Promotional Post Expanded Rules post, and find example disclosures here.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Port forwarding is a function of NAT. It’s only needed because there aren’t enough ipv4 addresses for every device, so in most networks a lot of devices share a single ip and specific ports are forwarded to specific internal hosts

IPv6 has a large enough address space that this isn’t needed. You can still do it if you want. But mostly you just need a firewall without any NAT.

There’s more to it than this but you should get the idea.

[–] vextuu@ttrpg.network -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's great and all, but how does it help with VPNs only forwarding one port?

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You responded to a question with an incorrect answer. I was correcting that.

VPNs shouldn’t need to forward any ports when using ipv6. They can provide an entire ipv6 subnet to you.

[–] vextuu@ttrpg.network 1 points 8 months ago

Ok, just making sure.