[e2e] Detecting middle boxes

Jiri Kuthan jkuthan at dynamicsoft.com
Tue Feb 12 11:16:13 PST 2002


Not that bad if STUN reflectors make it to every host like "ping
reflectors" did.

-Jiri

At 17:47 12.02.2002, Melinda Shore wrote:
>At 08:35 AM 2/12/02 -0800, Christian Huitema wrote:
>>Uh, what exactly is not robust here? We are considering a "detection"
>>system, not a "correction". 
>
>Detecting that you are behind a NAT by using a reflector,
>as STUN does, will not reliably tell you whether or not you
>are behind a NAT with respect to a particular endpoint if
>the network is multihomed.
>
>Melinda 




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