On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 10:21:33 CST, Dustin Miller <dustin@fusewerx.com> said: > MSN Messenger communicates using UPNP to try to auto-detect any > UPNP-compliant firewalls/routers you may have. Ostensibly, NAT/Firewall > devices that support UPNP will allow file transfers, voice and audio > communications so MSN Messenger polls for them to autoconfigure itself > and the NAT/Firewall device to support these transfer types. So MSN Messenger thinks that a properly configured firewall would configure itself to let arbitrary connections to the outside world through just because a UPnP device asked it to? Gaak. Trying to get my mind around that concept is making my brain hurt. -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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