Re: Lunch conversation things

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Alex  <http://www.gmail.com/~alex.>
 > Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 14:55:23 -0700
 >
 > And here's the non-tunneling tool I used to get my home server working
 > https://github.com/kaklakariada/portmapper

Thanks.

I see how this works.  It takes advantage of standard functionality in
most routers to essentially do dynamic port forwarding.  I didn't know
much about UPnP, probably because I never play online games :-).

It does not require an end connection, as I had thought before; it just
fiddles with stuff on the router itself using standard protocols.  It's
essentially punching a hole in the firewall and forwarding to your
machine.  This seems perfectly fine, I think ('tho, I wish the UPnP thing
that you found didn't require Java!).