From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 22 22:18:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stardust.bzzzz.com (stardust.bzzzz.com [209.90.68.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23CEA11583 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:18:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from clubkid@bzzzz.com) Received: from localhost (clubkid@localhost) by stardust.bzzzz.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA01209 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 23:18:50 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 23:18:50 -0700 (MST) From: Brian Budnick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dcc chat and natd Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am using ipfw and natd together at home for my firewall and when I was on IRC using Mirc 5.5 i noticed that when I did a DCC Chat with a friend it told him what my fake ip number was. That doesn't seem secure at all that he knows what my fake ip number is. I thought it would just return him the ip of the actual firewall but that doesn't seem to be the case. I'm using an 'open' firewall but I don't think that would case it... Any ideas? Thanks in advance. brian. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message