Pieter Hintjens wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Pieter Hintjens <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> Wait - they can connect to our publisher: otherwise the Internet
>>> wouldn't be much use from behind NAT. It's just making connections back
>>> to them that's difficult.
>> Of course they can connect to the publisher but there is no way for
>> your application code to authenticate those connections.
> 
> Incidentally that raises some other concerns for Internet scale use:
> 
> - how to block IP addresses (e.g. to prevent DoS attacks)
> 
> Martin, any idea how you'd solve that?  Callbacks to application code
> to allow/deny new connection requests, perhaps?

Well, I am not a security person, but I thought blocking particular IP 
addresses is more of an administrative task and should be done using 
firewall, no?

Martin
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