Re: P2P apps & filewalls

From: Patrick Lotti (Patrick.Lotti@energis-ision.com)
Date: 12/19/01 

From: Patrick Lotti <Patrick.Lotti@energis-ision.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:25:15 +0100

> Thanks for the response. How are people connecting to my PC though? I've
> seen incoming connections when I've been running Kazaa. I'm behind a
> firewall/NAT server. Nothing special has been setup on the server, it's a
> standard NAT software install. How are they getting through?

There are NO incoming connections, for sure!

Other Clients may ask YOU to open connections to THEM:
This request is done through the connection that YOU
opened when you connected to the main server.

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