If your users have the "I am behind a firewall and there is nothing I can do
about it" box checked and remote machine wants a song from the local
machine, the local machine starts the SYN process for the remote user to
have the file. Since your firewall probably lets SYN packets out, the
connection will be established. If the "Behind a firewall" box is not check
on the local machine, the remote machine starts the SYN process, which would
be blocked by the firewall.
I have been working an internal white paper on how Napster connections are
established if you are interested. I have also looked at Songspy and will
be adding Gnutella soon.
Beth
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From: Gregory Peters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 1:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: napster
What is the deal with this thing? how does it work? We have a
checkpoint firewall 4.1 installed at our location, yet somehow people
are still able to connect to internal hosts and upload music via
napster. I can see how it works for our internal clients to be able to
go out and retrieve music. But shouldnt the firewall be stopping anyone
from getting internal from the outside?
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