by hi all,
I am writing a little peer2peer chat application which I have running
on my computer, and I'm having some trouble with my firewall software.
It's actually on Win, but I think some Linux UDP gurus are gonna be
my greatest hope :) (And the backend runs on Linux, anyhow.)
You can read about my program at www.brendanland.com if you're
interested; there are quite a few explanations on how it works.
I have ZoneAlarm running here. When someone wants to connect to my
computer, they send a UDP message to a known port on my box. I have a
socket bind()ed to the port, but I never called listen() because I'm
only accepting UDP, not TCP.
However, the UDP message never arrives.
I thought I could get around this by having the server on my box first
send a UDP message out to the client who's about to connect. That way
ZoneAlarm will see their incoming packet as a "reply" to the one I
sent, and will let the packet through. Should this work? Because it
didn't seem to.
Should I perhaps be calling listen() on my server port? Would that
help?
The basic question is this: how can my program tell ZoneAlarm that it
should let UDP packets through to a given port?
thanks very much!
- Brendan