Posts tagged “port-forwarding”

1. CGNAT port forwarding workaround: reaching your own devices

   CGNAT blocks port forwarding because the ISP owns the public address. Reaching your own machines needs no inbound port: how it works, and what it cannot do.

   7 November 2026 · 10 min read

2. Remote desktop without port forwarding or an open 3389

   Remote desktop without port forwarding: both ends dial out, hole-punch through NAT, fall back to a relay that sees only ciphertext, and run on TLS 443 alone.

   6 November 2026 · 11 min read

3. How to securely access a home server with no open ports

   Reach a home server from anywhere with no port forwarding: outbound-only agents, services by name or one tunnel, access rules rolled out in Warn mode first.

   31 October 2026 · 11 min read

4. SSH into a machine behind NAT without port forwarding or sshd

   SSH to a machine behind NAT with no router port forward, no sshd and nothing listening, Windows included. How to turn it on, and why there is no -R.

   10 October 2026 · 9 min read