Re: [Tech] Fwd: [p2p-hackers] Real-world UPnP stats

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Author: Matthew Toseland
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Subject: Re: [Tech] Fwd: [p2p-hackers] Real-world UPnP stats
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Hmm, not good.. could you keep us informed of the results of the thread?

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 12:13:02AM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote:
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> This thread on p2p-hackers might be of interest...
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> Alex Pankratov wrote:
> > We've recently added UPnP support to our client software and
> > now I got some server-side stats and they are most interesting.
> >
> > Check this out -
> >
> > Roughly a half of all clients that reported success talking to
> > their 'routers' and establishing TCP/UDP port mappings were
> > still inaccessible from an outside via their mapped ports.
> >
> > Our UPnP code is written from scratch, so if the client says that
> > ports are mapped, there was in fact a 200 response for respective
> > SOAP request from the router.
> >
> > I was expecting some degree of failures due to double NAT'ing,
> > additional firewalling, etc .. but 50% ?
> >
> > Anyone care to comment or compare this to their own numbers ?
> >
> > Alex

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