Important for email or game servers
Host without forwarding a port with this trick!
Port forwarding allows you to forward traffic coming to a specific port on your router to your chosen device on your network. If you are into servers, such as email and gaming, you will want to learn how to perform port forwarding to get this software running on your machine.
If port forwarding is not enabled, traffic for these servers will get stuck on your router and never reach the desired device on your local network. With all the port forwarding tutorials available, it is easy to set it up on your router, no matter what router you have.
While you are doing this, make sure that you set up port forwarding so that only certain IP addresses have access to those ports. You don't want just anyone on the internet to have access to your open ports.
