pwnat mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• pwnat

Projektgeschichte

Samy Kamkar developed pwnat from earlier work including chownat and Daniel Meekins's udptunnel. Its technique accompanied the paper “Autonomous NAT Traversal,” presented at the IEEE P2P 2010 conference.

Adoptionsgeschichte

pwnat has remained a specialized networking utility rather than a general-purpose proxy standard. It is distributed by Homebrew and Nix and has attracted sustained interest as an unusual demonstration of NAT behavior.

Wie es verwendet wird

One endpoint runs `pwnat -s` as the server and another uses `pwnat -c` to expose a local port connected through the tunnel to a selected remote host and port. The official documentation notes uses including SSH, HTTP, VPN, IRC, FTP, and game traffic.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package enthusiasts value pwnat as a compact implementation of an unconventional NAT-traversal technique and as an example of research software that became an installable Unix utility.

Zeitleiste

• 2010: Samy Kamkar published the pwnat project page and presented the associated NAT-traversal research at IEEE P2P 2010.
• 2022: The official repository published the v0.3.0 release.

Related projects

• The official project identifies chownat and udptunnel as predecessors. It contrasts its technique with mediated or negotiated traversal systems such as STUN, TURN, ICE, and UPnP.

Quellen

• Official project page: https://samy.pl/pwnat
• Official repository: https://github.com/samyk/pwnat