essentially it opens a port to a 3rd party client, lets call it a supernode
and converse with other clients from there.
i.e. no need to open a port. now, there's a hitch. by not opening a port
then it is more difficult to converse with you and thus the connections will
be slower
and maybe other clients will decide not to converse with you at all because
of that.
you must understand that in order to "open a port" on your machine, the
other
party will send a message to the supernode, you will then receive the
message
because you are already connected to it. Then, your client will connect
to the other client (the other client mustn't be behind a firewall).
If the other client is also behind the firewall then its upto the supernode
or a delegated party to decide if to reroute your communications between you
at
a considerable cost for himself of course, and thus will probably not.
Of course it all depends on the network and protocol you use.
Regards,
tzahi.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Shlomo Solomon
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 4:22 PM
To: IGLU IGLU
Subject: Re: is Overnet safe?
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 00:04, Noam L. wrote:
> Overnet's connection is based on P2P, which requires one of the
> clients to accept an incoming connection,
<-- snip -->
> Thats, ofcourse, not based on any facts relevant to overnet - thats
> how any P2P network works (ed2k, kazaa, etc.)
>
But that doesn't answer either of my questions:
1 - why does it work at all if I didn't open a port in my firewall? 2 - does
running Overnet pose a danger (with or without opening a firewall
port)?
--
Shlomo Solomon
http://come.to/shlomo.solomon
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