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newbie home router Q news.virgin.net 02-21-2008
Posted by Sebastian G. on February 21, 2008, 9:13 am
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news.virgin.net wrote:


> Because that is what the aliens beamed into my brain...

At least you finally admin that you don't fully understand NAT.

Well, short to say, there're many reasons:

- triggered by a client from the inside
- related connections according to some heuristic rules
- related connections according to protocol parsing
- full forwarding on 1:1 mapping
- UPnP
...

However, the most reasonable assumption is that your system is compromised
(due to abuse of Outlook Express as a newsreader) and has reconfigured your
router to forward everything.

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