• Serdan@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You don’t want the service to create arbitrary outbound connections, but you want your device to be able to communicate with the service.

    It’s been a while since I’ve done network stuff, but it sounds like a pretty simple textbook problem.

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      1 year ago

      the technology my device uses to communicate with services, including self-hosted services, is known as the internet. local area networks only work in the local area, which frustrates the purpose of a mobile phone—being mobile, and all.

      both the server and the client must be connected to the internet to communicate with one another across significant distances.

      you’re right, this is a textbook problem.

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        1 year ago

        You can block a service from establishing outbound connections while allowing it to respond to inbound connections. It’s pretty common to do this because server software generally has no business calling out unprompted.