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Re:Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server by gitowiec on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:12AM (#31846349)
I don't think dynamic DNS will work on a phone connected to LTE service. LTE providers keep phones behind the NAT (or something with similar results). There is no way to forward/open a port for incoming connections. I wish there was a way to bring up a tunnel to make incoming connections possible via LTE/GSM OTA way.
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Re:Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server by gjadi on Friday June 24, 2022 @04:22AM (#31859031)
Wouldn't it be possible with ssh -R ?

The device connect remotely to a server that you control and give access back to you.

https://man.openbsd.org/ssh#R

Or setup wireguard and forward PUBLICIP:PORT to PHONE_WG_IP:PORT

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Re:Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server by cocoafleck on Saturday June 25, 2022 @01:00PM (#31876830)
T-Mobile has open ports on IPv6 (at least as of a few months ago). I was curious, and tried hosting a web site from my phone, and it worked flawlessly (assuming you are willing to abandon IPv4).
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Re:Repurposing an old Android phone as a web server by madacol on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:16AM (#31847980)
Well, if you don't mind really slow bandwidth, you can set up a Tor onion service
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