http://samy.pl/pwnat/
The idea is that NATs let back ICMP replies and send them to hosts behind them
if they suspect them to be responses to messages sent from those hosts. So, by
making the reply fixed and having a server behind a NAT continuously sending
the ICMP query that would elicit it, a server can learn a client's IP address,
and thus begin communication without a central rendezvous server.
An interesting idea, for sure. It might not be super efficient, and there's
the question of whose network gets all these ICMP messages. Are we using it
anywhere already?
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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