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Re: Firewalls, Hooray

Author:Eric Soroos
Posted:5/5/2000; 4:10:03 PM
Topic:scriptingNews outline for 5/5/2000
Msg #:17028 (In response to 17023)
Prev/Next:17027 / 17029

A better solution is to make Pike use a Two-way protocol, rather than 2 one-way ones. Then, Pike can attach to a server, and they can talk back and forth on that connection. Many other programs do this, telnet, ftp, quake, etc.

Well, from that list, ftp is the posterchild for not working with NAT without a specific FTP protocol module. (i.e., it is possible to not be able to make a connection if the right combination of NAT firewalls are in the way)

Quake takes UDP forwarding, IIRC. (unless they changed it)

And telnet is a connection from the client to the server.

Pike is a different animal. It is event driven, but those events come from the server. Requests for pages to be changed originate with the server.

eric

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