alt Hacker News> Even a correctly-configured NAT will let connections in from outside, and a lot of people don't understand this.
Yes, that's called port forwarding and it is normal thing. You actually want that.
> Even a correctly-configured NAT will let connections in from outside, and a lot of people don't understand this.
Yes, that's called port forwarding and it is normal thing. You actually want that.
It will let them in without a port forward in place. The port forward just rewrites the IP on an incoming connection, nothing more.