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What's DMZ used for in a home wireless router?

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As far as I understand, by using DMZ you expose all of the host computer's ports to the Internet. What's that good for?

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The DMZ is good if you want to run a home server that can be accessed from outside of your home network (ie web server, ssh, vnc or other remote access protocol). Typically you would want to run a firewall on the server machine to make sure only the…

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