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From: "Andrew E. Mileski" <andrewm@isoar.ca>
Subject: Re: NAT and DNS/NTP servers
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 13:49:51 -0400
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Andrew E. Mileski wrote:
> I speculate this is because an idle local server without an active
> connection doesn't have an entry in the connection table.  Though
> I've also seen failures with an active local server, but I haven't
> got a good theory on the mechanics behind it yet.

I just realized this theory is bogus too, as it should be easy to
tell there is a listener on the local port.  I assume this is
probably checked.

-- 
Andrew E. Mileski