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RFC 5780: NAT Behavior Discovery Using Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)

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This specification defines an experimental usage of the Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) Protocol that discovers the presence and current behavior of NATs and firewalls between the STUN client and the STUN server. This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

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Document ID
RFC5780
Published
May 2010
Authors
D. MacDonald; B. Lowekamp
Status
EXPERIMENTAL
Stream
IETF
Area
tsv
Pages
27
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Updated by:
RFC 8553

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