Re: MSN Messenger and UDP 1900

From: Valdis.Kletnieksat_private
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 23:00:57 PST

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On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 10:21:33 CST, Dustin Miller <dustinat_private>  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.


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				Valdis Kletnieks
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				Virginia Tech

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