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Why give your printer gateway and DNS addresses?

Decided to give my A5M a static IP address on my LAN rather than chase the constantly-changing DHCP-assigned addresses.

Did that no problem, but then it also wanted addresses for the gateway and DNS server. I dutifully entered those, but then wondered why, exactly, the printer needs them. Is it going to "phone home"? Any ideas?

On the off chance that I might someday want to print a file from a remote location, does this work over the Internet? How do you set it up? What port(s) etc.? I know on my router, I'd use Port Forwarding to direct the incoming data to the printer.

Source: r/FlashForge · by /u/GRobLewis

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