Sten-Arne:
Heya. My servers are in fact running on a DSL line
provided by PacBell. The one listening on port 4183 of the
.59 machine is a Gnutella introduction server.
The idea is this: when you're trying to connect to
your VPN partner, Kaboodle first tries a direct connection
to the IP address it last used for that partner. The *very*
first time it connects, it uses the IP address that's in the
Partnership file (so, the IP address your partner was web
browsing from when they registered). If the connection fails
to authenticate via the "direction connection", though, Kaboodle
resorts to a Gnutella search to find your VPN partner; it
literally searches the Kaboodle-Gnutella space to find the
Partnership file. Once found, it tries to authenticate to
the IP address where the file was found.
So in short, the .59 machine is the initial Gnutella
server that a Gnutella client needs to get started. I have it
listening to 4183 and not the standard Gnutella port (TCP 6347)
just to avoid the world of noise on that channel. I *believe*
you can delete the Gnutella DLL that comes with Kaboodle, and
it will still direct-connect with your VPN partners without
trouble. It just won't, obviously, be able to perform any
partner discovery.
Hope that explains things...
cheers,
Scott
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Sten-Arne Zerpe wrote:
> Very interesting program indeed. I have one question though.
>
> Why does the kaboodle application connect to port 4183 on 66.123.20.59
> (adsl-66-123-20-59.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net)
>
> That seems to be some adsl account with pacbell.
>
> What is the purpose of that?
>
> Sten-Arne
>
>
>
> Original Message -----------------------
>
> Heyaz. This is an announcement that version 0.99 of the
> Kaboodle LAN-Management utility for Windows has been released.
> This is the full-featured version; 1.0 will simply include better
> integration with the GetEngaged web portal. Once it's built, that
> is...
>
> [snip]
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