On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, tack wrote: > > basically, what i want to know is how the hell they're initiating > > connections through my firewall/nat. my default rules block all > > incoming IP traffic with only a few specified ports open. > > anyone find anything on the web? i've googled myself out. > > They aren't initiating connections, you are. Basically, if a machine is > behind nat or firewalling, the schemes remediate to backchannel operation. > So instead of Alice contacting your box, the protocol has your box contact > Alice. In the case where both hosts are behind firewalls most schemes > break down because comm is blocked in both directions. I suppose a non > firewalled box could be used as a man in the middle to fix this, but I > haven't seen it for napster-esque schemes yet.
so how does my box know that alice's box wants to download something? some kind of central morpheus request server i contact every few seconds? and why does alice want my porn? and is she hot? =jay _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
