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RE: quietly....
From: Matthew Huff <mhuff () ox com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 16:41:12 -0500
SMTP is definitely not a p2p protocol in most corporate environments. In ours, all email (even ones that you would think should be host2host) go to a central "smarthost" that processes the mail, and archive it for compliance. All internal to external and external to internal email is tightly controlled and only goes through a very specific route. Again, big difference between a univerisity or ISP environment and a corporate one.
-----Original Message----- From: Matthew Palmer [mailto:mpalmer () hezmatt org] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 4:00 PM To: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: quietly.... On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 03:20:25PM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote:On Thursday, February 03, 2011 02:28:32 pm Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:The only reason FTP works through a NAT is because the NAT has already been hacked up to further mangle the data stream to make up for the mangling it does.FTP is a in essence a peer-to-peer protocol, as both ends initiate TCP streams. I know that's nitpicking, but it is true.So is SMTP, by the same token. Aptly demonstrating why the term "P2P" is so mind-alteringly stupid. - Matt
Current thread:
- Re: quietly...., (continued)
- Re: quietly.... Matthew Palmer (Feb 03)
- RE: quietly.... Matthew Huff (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 03)
- RE: quietly.... Matthew Huff (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 03)
- RE: quietly.... Matthew Huff (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Randy Carpenter (Feb 03)
- RE: quietly.... Matthew Huff (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Lamar Owen (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Matthew Palmer (Feb 03)
- RE: quietly.... Matthew Huff (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Jay Ashworth (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Jay Ashworth (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Lamar Owen (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Andrews (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Jay Ashworth (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Andrews (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 03)
- RE: quietly.... kmedcalf () dessus com (Feb 19)