Does UltraVNC offer a "broker server"? Or firewall adjustm.?

[thoste]

Approx 2 years ago I evaluated UltraVNC and found it necessary to adjust the firewall rules resp. setup a NAT port forwarding to enable a connection.

This is not comfortable for most users. So I switched over to TeamViewer
where this is not necessary due to a "broker server" in the middle.

Now I visited again UltraVNC to check new features in most recent release.

Is this problem solved meanwhile?

Does UltraVNC offer now a way to establish a connection WITHOUT having to change something in firewall or NAT port forwarding?

Thank you
Thomas

[B]

As you've figured out, to do so ALWAYS requires some kind of 3rd party server to manage, initiate, or relay the connection so that both NATted endpoints can communicate.

Personally I couldn't trust a "free" server to always be available -- UltraVNC has no revenue stream other than site ads as far as I know.

That said, there was an old "NAT2NAT" project that did what you want, and the UltraVNC developer has just restarted it:

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You can also use the UltraVNC Repeater to maintain your <b>own</b> "broker server", though that relays traffic rather than merely maintaining the connection. The ChunkVNC project includes a copy of the repeater.

(I just use LogMeIn Free; it works well.)