Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If you try connecting to 'www.showmyip.com' and requesting '/xml/' it >> should work. > > If the firewall is really obnoxious, it can bounce consecutive queries > around between multiple originating IP addresses. That is uncommon > but it's been done from time to time. Yes, each connection through the firewall needs to have a unique originating ip and port number. If there are too many machines inside the firewall then you may need to allocate multiple ip addresses on the outside. I would hope that in general a single internal IP should map to one external IP at a time (otherwise you would have problems with ip based session persistence connecting to load balanced systems), but you might expect to bounce round different IPs after periods of inactivity. Also you could have multiple levels of NAT in which case the question becomes whether Steven wants the IP as seen from outside the immediate firewall or outside the final one. Maybe he should be using IPv6 to avoid all this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
