On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 05:22:24PM +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > 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?
I don't remember the exact specifics, but at least some of these protocols have a system where if the uploading user is behind a firewall and the downloading one isn't (or the port is open or whatever) the message can be sent to the file owner through a third party to perform the connection instead of the downloader which allows bypassing firewalls. > 2 - does running Overnet pose a danger (with or without opening a firewall > port)? > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://come.to/shlomo.solomon > Sent by KMail 1.6.1 (KDE 3.2) on LINUX Mandrake 10.0 > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
