Gradual removal of port forwarding from the IVPN service (www.ivpn.net)

submitted 2 years ago by crewman_princess@lemmy.sdf.org to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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So IVPN is also removing port forward. Who's next?

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[-] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago

To be able to connect to someone, one of them needs to have a port forwarded. If you forward it, you can connect to everyone. If not, then you can only connect to those who have done it. This is especially a problem on almost dead torrents with a few or less peers only

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