[Twisted-Python] Punching a firewall with Twisted?
Glyph Lefkowitz
glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Thu Jun 17 12:21:16 EDT 2010
On Jun 17, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Stefan Reich wrote:
> Dear 'Twisted' experts!
>
> I have a quick question that I am sure one of you guys can answer easily:
>
> What I want to do is open an incoming port on the router that connects
> my computer to the Internet. More precisely, I want my Python app do
> that automatically.
>
> In other words, this is about punching a hole into a firewall.
>
> I know that this is possible because there are applications that do
> that. Deluge does this, and Deluge uses Twisted. So I have tried to find
> out how/where Deluge tells Twisted to do this, but the Deluge sources
> are quite sizey, and I haven't found that particular needle in the
> haystack yet.
>
> So, can one of you people enlighten me here? :)
>
> Thanks & have a nice day!
> Stefan
I'm not sure about Deluge, but <http://divmod.org/trac/wiki/DivmodVertex> does some NAT hole-punching. It does it via sending UDP packets though, not by communicating directly with your router.
Good luck; this is always an interesting problem ;).
-glyph
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