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aggi in reply to @hippy

I think my main issue is my ISP won't work with DDNS and I'd need to move to something with a static IP or a public one at least rather than carrier grade nat or whatever mine is using.

That's exactly the problem I had with Community Fibre. Killed Plex plus various other stuff.

I pay about a quid a month for a small linux box on https://www.ionos.co.uk/
A port on that remote machine is then directed to my local Windows machine which uses this
https://bitvise.com/tunnelier to direct it to the correct local port

@NotThamesWater sent me some tips to get it set up. It's worked for the past year with minimal input from me.

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hippy in reply to @aggi

I still don't understand how you're going from the linux box to your machine if your machine's IP is changing/hidden.

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aggi in reply to @hippy

I'm very much not an expert but I do know it works.

I assume it is because the SSH tunnel originates locally and that is how the traffic is funnelled from the static IP on the VPS to the machine on the local network. Like a VPN or Tailscale or something.

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