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From: Valdis.Kletnieksvt.edu
Date: Fri Feb 08 2002 - 01:00:57 CST

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    On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 10:21:33 CST, Dustin Miller <dustinfusewerx.com> said:
    > MSN Messenger communicates using UPNP to try to auto-detect any
    > UPNP-compliant firewalls/routers you may have. Ostensibly, NAT/Firewall
    > devices that support UPNP will allow file transfers, voice and audio
    > communications so MSN Messenger polls for them to autoconfigure itself
    > and the NAT/Firewall device to support these transfer types.

    So MSN Messenger thinks that a properly configured firewall would
    configure itself to let arbitrary connections to the outside world
    through just because a UPnP device asked it to?

    Gaak. Trying to get my mind around that concept is making my brain hurt. 

    -- 
				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech

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