How to DCC files with mIRC/AIM/ICQ/*.* without opening ports on a router

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited September 2003 in Nerdery
Launch netmeeting
Dial 104.45.1.1
Cancel before it connects (And it never will)
Send away

It won't matter if the user on the other hand has a firewall, NAT, or any other method of blocking your transfer. Same for you.

I had port 3000 opened on my routers, and such ports set in AIM, but DCCing files never worked anyways.

So I figured this might work, as netmeeting opens a TCP/IP tunnel. Lo! It does.

I disabled port 3000, and it still works. :D

Comments

  • PreacherPreacher Potomac, MD Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Thrax,
    will this method work using Trillian for MSN/AIM/ICQ as well?
  • TemplarTemplar You first.
    edited September 2003
    Where'd the IP come from? Just random?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Unsure about trillian. I don't have it on hand to test.

    Random IP.
  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Thrax, can you elaborate?

    I just installed netmeeting to check this out... I took an IP with nothing forwarded and attempted to connect to my public IP from another computer on a port that my computer is listening on. No connect of course. Then I dialed from netmeeting and tried again - but nothing happened still. Is this the kind of thing you're talking about?
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