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Old August 23rd, 2001
michas michas is offline
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Originally posted by freak
My main question is the communcation through a firewall. How does servent A communicate with servent B (behind a firewall)?
servent A cannot open a conection to servent B, but servent B can open a connection to servent A.
so if you are behind a firewall, you will probably only have outgoing conections. and others cannot take your files (http get), they have to ask you to giving the files to them.(gnutella push)

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How does a discovery query work?
How does a search query work?
How does a file request work?
(From servent A to servent B)
did you read the mentioned page(es)?
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