Out of the Blue [Dec 12, 2003, 11:33 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Last year I recall a couple of occasions where rain storms failed to put a dent
in the snow piles, but yesterday was the opposite... one good day of rain
eliminated about every flake that had previously accumulated.
Thanks to those with advice on hosting a network game behind NAT... I haven't gotten to try this out yet, but it's reassuring to know that there's a method to properly tunnel through to my machine.
That New Zealand accidental prohibition story of the day from yesterday was actually from a couple of years ago, so please just consider that the nostalgia link of the day.
Thanks to those with advice on hosting a network game behind NAT... I haven't gotten to try this out yet, but it's reassuring to know that there's a method to properly tunnel through to my machine.
That New Zealand accidental prohibition story of the day from yesterday was actually from a couple of years ago, so please just consider that the nostalgia link of the day.
| Play Time: | Mad
Shark. Thanks Nick. Are You Grammatically Incorrect? Thanks Ant. Damn subjunctive mood ruined my perfect score. |
| Link of the Day: | Pacelman. Pacman for Excel. Thanks Bronco. |
| Stories of the Day: | The
world's expanding waistline. Web school teaches porn site how-to. Abused circus elephant finds refuge in Tennessee. |
| Science!: | Electronic
Toll Records Help Solve Crime. Patenting Air or Protecting Property? Junk Science: Smithsonian Wrongs Wrights ... Again. |
| Images of the Day: | Hole
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| Auction of the Day: | Deer Poop in snow. Thanks Gargus. |
| Thanks Mike Martinez. |
Blue, Yes it does work. The proper technique is called Port Forwarding and nails a port number (such as 80) to an inside PC. Not all firewalls/routers/cable devices/what-have-you support this, however. It IS possible. I do it. My girlfriend has a friend in a neighboring state that likes to FTP. So I tell the router, hey, if you hear an incoming FTP request, pipe it to my girlfriend's inside PC. Not mine!
Also, we have a web server. Work the same way. I tell Mr. Router (via Port Forwarding config) hey if you hear a request incoming to port 80, pipe it to our web server on the inside.
Same can be done for multiplayer game servers. I have hosted before behind our NAT. You can easily host all different kinds of things this way (port forwarding) while using NAT.
Not all devices have this support. Depends on how much you paid for said device. Good luck!
Also, we have a web server. Work the same way. I tell Mr. Router (via Port Forwarding config) hey if you hear a request incoming to port 80, pipe it to our web server on the inside.
Same can be done for multiplayer game servers. I have hosted before behind our NAT. You can easily host all different kinds of things this way (port forwarding) while using NAT.
Not all devices have this support. Depends on how much you paid for said device. Good luck!
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