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You can make WoL work with a forwarded UDP port on your router. Most WoL tools also tolerate the use of a domain instead of an IP. Obviously this can't shut your server down.

Downside: unencrypted magic packets sent over the network could be captured and maliciously repeated for your annoyance.



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