Re: UPnP, NATs, and P2P

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> Even without UPnP, penetrating NAT is still possible.
> Currently MS Torendo IPv6 server protocal can let 2 peers both behind
> NAT to communicate with each other directly without server relay.

Reading the docs, I see it basically works in those situations under
which STUN works ie sometimes, mostly if you have a really dumb NAT
box (not a Unix machine).

Also if you want to talk to real IPv6 hosts all traffic has to pass through
a server. (just using it for NAT traversal you can talk directly if it 
works at all - no one has decided to procide open NAT relay servers). I
suspect that this part of the infrastructure wont last long unless core
ipv6 routers decide to support it.

Who is providing the servers?

Can anyone behind NAT ping me (bream.specialbusservice.com - ipv6 name only)?

 
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> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 05:24:08 -0500, Bill Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > >From what I can tell, enabling UPnP on NAT enabled gateway is not
> > currently a good idea.  There are too many computers with spy-ware and
> > worse, and allowing those applications to open ports through your fire-
> > wall is risky.
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> > The problem this causes is that P2P enabled applications like BitTorrent
> > aren't able to contact peers behind NATs unless the users are computer-
> > savvy enough to forward a BitTorrent port.
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> > Is this a long-term problem, or is there some solution out there?  IPv6
> > wont do it: we don't use NATs just to save IP address space, we use NATs
> > for security.
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> > Bill
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