how to host behind a firewall

[xoclipse]

Alright, I wanted to bring this to your attention, because most people with a firewall think there is no hope, or have countless problems hosting. Whether it is timeouts(my old problem) or ppl cant connect, etc.,

A lot of ppl say port forward ports 2346-2348, and 15000. That is absolutely the worst thing to do! I had that, people could connect, but i had major timeouts. I was expirementing with Snake, and we found out you only need dmz host on. So to host behind a firewall, DO NOT port forward, just dmz host your computer, which puts it in front of the firewall, and you can host flawlessly.

AGAIN, DO NOT PORT FORWARD.
Just dmz host and your in the clear.
I hope this helps you somewhat.

[Bondo]

What pers? is dmz host blah...no clue what you are talking about.

[Brain]

dmz= demilitarized<sp?> zone

If I rember from the last thread we had like this, It is a place where you can put your computer so that it is no longer protected by the firewall

[Bondo]

I guess the question is how would I go about doing it with my computer.

[?{RiP}? Vapor]

Yeah, but Xoclipse, this is so for the AirPort people. Due to the shittiness of or configurations, there is no known spot of setting an AirPort to DMZ hosting. So what the fuck are we supposed to do?

[electronicjo]

I've tried that, XO. For some reason usually it causes RS to sit at a black screen for a minute, and then finally load. I have a Linksys 4 port router if that has anything to do with it.

[xoclipse]

ok, airport ppl, you are fucked, but if you have a diff router it should work, if it supports dmz.

According to my linksys router, this is what dmz is:

This feature sets a local user to be exposed to the Internet. Any user on the Internet can access in/out data from the DMZ host. Enable the feature as you wish to use special-purpose service.

To do this, go to the advanced tab, or advanced configuration of your router, find dmz host, and enter your ip of your computer.

sorry airport ppl, but it doesent look like Apple has implemented DMZ hosting into its airport, so until an update with it comes out, your fucked... sorry kids

[:V:*Beast]

the f****** ?problem is I need to reboot the router everytime I wanna enable/disable the DMZ.

this is some info i found on my router/firewall:
i like the NOTE... :-) ?grrrr.....

DMZ Host:
A DMZ (DeMilitarized Zone) Host is a host without firewall protection. It allows a computer to be exposed to unrestricted 2-way communication for Internet games, video conferencing, Internet telephony, and other special applications. This function is typically used to allow a web server, FTP server, etc to be accessible to users on the Internet.

NOTE: This feature should be used only when needed.

[electronicjo]

mmaybe the dmz crap didn't work for me because of my out of date firmware version..now that i have a mroe recent version it seems to work OK however my host likes to drop people so wtf