Required network setup to host your own server

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Required network setup to host your own server

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I have been helping a few people who have been trying to set up their home Minetest servers and a pattern is emerging for those who are having particularly difficult times - it all boils down to proper network setup.

There are some types of Internet provision that will not work with hosting a server, of any kind. I decided to make a graphic of it to explain better... it's crude and simplistic, but I hope it helps clarify for the neophyte why they absolutely need a home router that is directly connected to the internet.

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A way around being behind NATs (translated network addresses) could be to tunnel out to a public server which would listen on the matching desired port -- but having said public server would be necessary in the first place.
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