On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 05:34:14PM -0600, Alex S Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:05:42 -0500
> stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:42:28PM -0600, Alex S Moore wrote:
> > > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 11:32:23 -0500
> > > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > ..snip>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the helpful reply.
> > > >
> > > > Do you think my firewall is blocking, even given the traceroute that shows
> > > > I can get to one of the servers? I'm behin a NAT'ing OpenBSD firewall if
> > > > that matters.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes, because cdcc info is showing no responses. Maybe the firewall is allowing
> > > only one-way traffic on UDP/6277.
> > >
> > One more (hopefully final) question. Is cdcc freestanding? That is can I
> > depend on it's results even if I have no related daemons running?
>
> Yes, cdcc does not require any of the programs used in a server and client/server
> arrangement. cdcc is just the way to manipulate and view the control files.
>
> >
> > BTW, I convinced myself that I could not trust the traceroute output by
> > chaninging the port number to one that should be blocked. Same result :-(
> >
>
> Oh my. I do not think that it is desired to see a firewall that will let everything
> out of the local network, but that is a common configuration. It tells me that the
> firewall completely trusts data originating from the local network. If this is true
> in your case, that would confirm your inability to get a response from a DCC server
> using cdcc. The firewall does not trust all data packets coming into the local
> network from an outside source.
>
Yes, I just erviewd the firewall config. It will pass all trafic
originating on the innsied. I see that may not be a good general case, but
it should be OK here (Small home network).
BTW, I decided to try (breifly) disabling all packet firewalling. Guess
what? cdcc still says "No servers responfing".
Any thoughts on where to go now?
>
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