On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:54:12AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> 
> I changed my port upon joining the unstable network and by mistake had forgotten
> to enable forwarding on the NAT.  The node didn't receive any inbound
> connections, however it had more than 4 outgoing connections to each peer in the
> routing table, was receiving and fulfilling queries (both inserts and requests)
> not any different than before for over 48 hrs.
> 
> So, can we declare firewalled nodes whose listening port is not reachable to not
> be completely useless?  Imagine the resources that will give to the network -
> all those universities, corporations, etc. ;)

I'd say that it depends a great deal on how the firewall is configured.  
Sounds like yours must be setup to allow either any responses to outgoing 
traffic and/or any "established" traffic, i.e, connections where you 
initiated the outgoing setup connection.  This may not be true of all 
firewalls, though.

-- 
Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "In Unix veritas"
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