From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] NAT From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: <2147483647.1064935529@[192.168.42.6]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-epqiirwnhfcfcersgoojdzdrag" Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 23:29:21 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5950d0e2-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-epqiirwnhfcfcersgoojdzdrag Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit what??? i send messages out and things come back. what on earth are they doing? sounds more of a PRAT than a NAT box --upas-epqiirwnhfcfcersgoojdzdrag Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu> Received: from punt-3.mail.demon.net by mailstore for forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk id 1A4S1F-00021N-9w; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:26:53 +0000 Received: from [130.203.4.6] (helo=mail.cse.psu.edu) by punt-3.mail.demon.net with esmtp id 1A4S1F-00021N-9w for forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:26:53 +0000 Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id B8AEB19C6C; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:26:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.8.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id C056319C6B; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:26:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 3533B19C39; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:25:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (orthanc.ab.ca [216.123.230.114]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 1B92719C6C for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:25:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.42.6] (peregrin.orthanc.ab.ca [192.168.42.6]) by orthanc.ab.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8ULPTe7089495 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:25:33 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ca) From: Lyndon Nerenberg To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] NAT Message-ID: <2147483647.1064935529@[192.168.42.6]> In-Reply-To: <32217.135.214.42.162.1064954559.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> References: <200309301914.h8UJEXN29405@plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca> <32217.135.214.42.162.1064954559.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.0b8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:25:29 -0600 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:42 PM -0400 vdharani@infernopark.com wrote: >> more than a casual interest for me. I'm not particularly trusting of >> those little NAT firewall boxes that everyone seems so enamored with >> these days. > whats wrong with it? I think those boxes works well (and act as > plug-and- play firewalls). Only if all[*] of your internal hosts do the uPnP dance with the NAT box. None of mine do. --lyndon [*] Well, the ones that need to communicate with the world at large. In my case that's all of the hosts on my internal network. --upas-epqiirwnhfcfcersgoojdzdrag--