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Re:DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android by fullspectrumdev on Friday May 03, 2024 @11:47AM (#40249014)
A lot of VPN’s allow you to forward a port from local to “listening” on one of their servers, to make it easier to use P2P filesharing and such.

Mullvad and a few others have had to disable this feature because it turns out it’s super useful for hosting malware C&C servers, phishing pages, etc

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Re:DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android by Gormo on Friday May 03, 2024 @04:25PM (#40251985)
I sort of understand their reasoning, then, because acting as a reverse proxy for externally-initiated inbound connections is not typically within the scope of VPN services per se, and especially outside the scope of Mullvad's particular mission of offering VPN services for the purposes of protecting privacy and suppressing censorship.

There are other solutions for your use case, with or without a third-party VPN, that wouldn't require port forwarding. There are also other VPN services that do offer this functionality.

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