[JDEV] Firewall jumping

Thomas Charron tcharron at ductape.net
Fri Jan 21 11:11:30 CST 2000


Quoting "Jay, Dylan" <djay at lucent.com>:
> I may be a little ignorant on this point but where is an individual's info
> stored such as buddy lists etc? If its on the server they directly connect
> to then the above situation is not very optimal. I would want my buddy list
> etc to be available to me on either side of the firewall.

  Actually, your buddy list is stored on the server, but requested by the 
client, hence, it's stored on one side, but available on both.

  And technically, if you didn't trust the server, a client could manage it's 
own buddy list, and never rely on the server at all..

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Thomas Charron
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