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Confusing...

Well, of course I don't know how it's all going to work out. I haven't played it or anything. But let me see if I can address your points one by one...

"So You can authenticate the game without needing to identify every time you start a game. Authenticating once is enough, so i don't think this measure is only for fight against piracy."

I'm betting you will not have to connect to battle.net each time you want to play single player. I don't know though. Games that use Windows Live log you in for single player, but I don't know if Starcraft 2/Diablo 3 will do that. With that being said, your CD-KEY will need to authenticate against the server each time you want to play multiplayer. This is because one-time client-side verification is not strong enough. A malicious user could mess with that.

"But even when a hosted game is managed by a personal server, you can't bet sure that the packages will not go through the gateway (WAN)"

Are you referring to a personal, hypothetical server? In a hypothetical LAN game, you can be sure that your packets are not going out to the gateway because they're routed with internal IPs. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you.

"For example and depending the configuration of the next, if you host a webpage, lets say with a real ip as :200.20.30.1 => www.mypage.com, then you locally (and even in the same server) can't ping to this address but you can't access to the webpage because its point outside instead of inside,but you can access the page directly locally (such 127.0.0.1 => localhost)."

That's simply incorrect. If you are seeing that behavior somewhere, then it's certainly a configuration issue probably with your firewall. Pings don't always work in general because the server on the other end can refuse to reply.

But, yes, firewalls and proxies and all that will be an issue for users to grapple with in order to connect. UPnP will help. But I'm sure Blizzard support will provide instructions for users on how to configure their firewalls for battle.net and what not.

And after all that, I'm not sure what your point was.

Posted by: Uncle Ebeneezer   Posted on: 07/08/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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