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The only tool/technique to punch holes through firewalls/NATs where multiple clients & server can be behind separate NATs without any 3rd party involvement. Pwnat is a newly developed technique, exploiting a property of NAT translation tables, with no 3rd party, port forwarding, DMZ, DNS, router admin requirements, STUN/TURN/UPnP/ICE, or spoofing.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 2 stories, 8 comments · first 2017-10-11 · latest 2025-07-27

Mentions per year 10 mentions · busiest year 2024 (4)
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    Pwnat: Punch Holes Through Firewalls/NATs Without Any Third Party
    story by yamrzou · 2024-11-04 · 0 comments
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    Samy Kamkar's pwnat: The most advanced NAT hole-punching tool
    story by popcalc · 2024-07-24 · 0 comments