* Adam Borowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060824 01:46]: > > This is a bit of a red herring. Torrents work without re-configuring > > firewalls, they just don't work as well. > > They don't work well if there's NAT[1] involved, you wanted to say. Blocking incoming connections is a common and good starting points for every firewall setup. That NAT makes this mandatory does not change the fact that protocols needing listening ports are a security hole many people do not like to introduce.
> Do I > need to point out a wonderful opportunity to push in some IPv6 propaganda? One of the nice features of NAT is that it adds another layer of security if your firewall contains a "no incoming connections" part: If everything fails there still has to be some mechanism to translate the intern IPs to extern addressable. So I hope someone will still make it available with IPv6... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
