On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 07:31:35PM -0700, Lemon Obrien wrote:
> When two processes are running on the same machine; different port
>numbers, using their known global ip address, can not talk to each other,
>yet be able to find and communicate with all other peers.
>
>   Does anyone recognize the pattern and understand what might be happening?

In my experience (with Tor users), this typically happens because
there's some sort of firewall running locally. Windows has a mode where
it helpfully locks down local connections; and Fedora Core ships with a
default SELinux configuration that prevents many processes from talking
to each other locally. I imagine there are other examples of default
firewalls -- and most users don't even know they have them installed.
Usually telling the user to "turn off your firewall, no really"
is sufficient.

--Roger

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