My Full Review On Www.anonx.com

[RealitY]

What I am saying

IRC can't upload, BT is yellow, EMule Low ID, SoulSeek can't connect to other routers. These are all the same symptons with different applications. These problems are simtimatic of having a router without having opened needed ports, thus AnonX is acting as a NAT/router somehow. Theses issues possibly become more severe to those also having a router, I intend on bypassing my router tomorrow as a a test to see what results I get. Hopefully AnonXO with his technical support is able to find a way to resolve this...

[RealitY]

Looks like this issue has been ditched...

[AnonXO]

Oh reality, I go shopping for a few days and the problem is ditched?



I just pm james bond on this. The solution is somewhat involved, but does exist. I have been capturing packets from my home pc the last few days. Upon inspection, I noticed that both the anonx ip address and the private 172 address where sent in the ip header. This is standard VPN stuff needed for routing pruposes. I solved the NAT to NAT problem long ago by using a reverse DNS MAC ARP table. That way I did not care about your local ip and you could be behind a firewall. Now, the problem is I never stripped this data (or spoofed it to my anonx ip).

Here the bottome line eDonkey and other servers look at the damn local ip address instead of the realworld for whatever reason. My only guess is because they want your router/NAT to port forward the traffic to gain direct acces to you. This way they know who you are. Dumb on their part. Anyways it is easy enough to foll them by placing setting the ip address to the anonx address in both fields.


This will take some programming time on my part.

[james_bond_rulez]

Originally posted by REALITY@16 December 2003 - 18:48
Looks like this issue has been ditched...

have some patience, sheesh

silly californians.... lolol

Anonxo good work

[RealitY]

Originally posted by AnonXO@17 December 2003 - 12:14
Oh reality, I go shopping for a few days and the problem is ditched?

My deepest appoligies thy Mystro...
Just feeling alone and ignored
As well as misunderstood
As usual


Keep us informed.

Thanks Again.

[RealitY]

Also I found a link to test your SoulSeek connection at
http://klboard.ath.cx/index.php?showtopic=87630

If you click the link it checks your connection
http://testic.demon.co.uk/slsktest/

When I have AnnoX off it shows port 2234 being open
Though when AnonX is on it shows it being closed

Your public IP address is 38.112.161.130
Your port 2234 appears to be closed.
According to the Soulseek server status page the server is up.

Hope this helps...

EDIT: I also got on a torrent and checked in advanced and saw 4 users on the torrent. However when I went to the BNBT File Info there was 8 others besides myself which means I could only access half of the users on that paticular torrent since in theory while on AnonX my ports appear as being closed. I would guess that about half of all internet users have some sort of non direct connection such as NAT/routers these days...

[AnonXO]

Thanks for the info. I will keep working on the problem

[AnonXO]

There is something more to the problem.


I change the ip header to reflect only the realworld AnonX IPs. This works for eDonkey, but not the IRC.


If have made email contact with the IRC people about the problem to learn more about how IRC works, but at this rate the problem may take a month to solve.


Sorry Guys, the current state of AnonX is as good as it gets for a little while longer.

[james_bond_rulez]

it's ok anonxo, just keep at it

we are patient

the download speed on irc is still kickass

[Bobohiotk]

Anonxo, I eagerly wait for a resolution to this.

Regarding the gift and pre-paid credit cards that I mentioned earlier in this thread: I've discovered why so many banks have changed their policy about requiring the purchaser to provide ID. It seems that this is now a requirment in the US following the passing of the Patriot Act. So, for anyone who is planning on getting either a gift or pre-paid credit card, you will have to show ID UNLESS you have someone buy it for you. Afterall, it's not illegal to receive a gift from someone, even if it was 'intended' for another named individual that was identified as the recipient of the gift card at the time of purchase.