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That's not how networking works. Incoming connections are usually blocked which is what this is for. It punches a hole through your firewall by using an established ssh tunnel to forward traffic over. You don't need to allow incoming anything to use this service


Yes, but there are organizations that block outgoing ssh connections.




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