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The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old (torrentfreak.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, we get the VPN part. What about the port-forwarding part?

[–] ieightpi 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I might have used the wrong word. I think the term is binding a VPN to a torrenting application so that all data going in andd out of pass thru the vpns servers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But isn't that how VPNs work, binding the network interface connected to it to the applications?