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@manlycoffee why do you need public Internet access for local development?

@schizanon I could almost swear that I need it to test my little toy ActivityPub example.

Like, an instance of an ActivityPub software running on the Internet (that will act like a client) will likely not know how to punch through the NAT to explicitly open up a TCP client connection to my laptop.

Best to do some form of tunelling.

But I might be wrong.

@manlycoffee you can create local aliases in your hosts file if you need the names to be different

@schizanon yes.

But what about some remote client directly reaching into my laptop, from the Internet?

@manlycoffee why are you developing with a remote client from the internet? Can't you test with a local client using local urls?

@schizanon perhaps.

I will give it a go.