On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 01:56:59AM +0200, Thomas King wrote: > On Friday 21 April 2006 23:53, NextGen$ wrote: > > * Michael Rogers <m.rogers at cs.ucl.ac.uk> [2006-04-21 21:43:37]: > > > Thomas King wrote: > > > UPnP, on the other hand, sounds useful - LimeWire contains a Java > > > implementation so that might be a good starting point. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Michael > > > > Azureus too (azureus.sourceforge.net). I've started doing something with it > > but gave up when I saw that recent windows versions are becoming paranoid > > to all Up&p stuffs. > Thanks for the hint! I didn't not know that, because I do not use Azureus. > > > > > IMO UP&P was a fashion : it was hype when manufacturers were enabling it by > > default but now most of them are doing the opposite. It's disabled by > > default. > I do not agree with you. As far as I know most (consumer) DSL-router vendors > still enable UPnP by default. For instance, the DLink DSL-G664T is shipped > with enabled UPnP and I'm quit sure my Linksys WRT54 was also shipped with > enabled UPnP.
Hmmm. Well the first step is to establish some concrete facts on this. > > > > Moreover, the concept of letting the application deal with NAT/firewalling > > rules isn't "good" nor secure imho. > Yes, that is more or less true. However, for most computer users it is even > better if the application handles the NAT/firewall because otherwise they > cannot use the application. These people do often not understand the theory > behind the technical concepts and are not able to change the configuration of > their NAT by hand. Agreed! > > Greetings, > Thomas -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060424/2fb49d14/attachment.pgp>
