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[Carlos <230973@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh my god. I'm so happy. If any developers read this, just consider it a
big rose. Situation's like this. For as long as I can remember (since
initial DC++ release probably) the UPnP has not been working properly in
Windoze XP. It looks like some people has had it working, so I guess
there could be some issue with my particular router. I've always had
D-Link routers (mainly the DIR series). Anyways, the UPnP has never
worked properly.

A couple of years ago, I found out that DC++ had has spin-offs (i.e.
StrongDC/ApexDC). I was delighted, and hopeful, perhaps these "new"
clients had taken care of this issue. Unfortunately, the not working
UPnP remained a fact, although I still chose to stick with ApexDC++ ever
since I discovered it, since it's simply the best in terms of
functionability and user interface. However, it still struck me as
weird, this thing with UPnP. Other software worked fine with UPnP, eg.
Utorrent. I still ran the known Windows app "upnptest.exe" (and its
sequel "upnptest2.exe" aswell), just to make sure everything was fine.
It was, but DC clients still wouldn't catch UPnP port redirection.

Now, I At one time, I seemed to manage to pin-point the issue. I went
into "Network Connections" (ncpa.cpl) / "Internet Connection" /
Properties / Settings, to see how the redirection list looked like after
having launched DC/StrongDC/ApexDC. The pattern was consistent for all
these DC++ clients. Whereas Utorrent (which worked correctly) had
forwarded its desired port to LAN IP of my actual machine (eg.
192.168.0.123), the DC forwardings simply pointed at "127.0.0.1". I then
tried manually changing 127.0.0.1 (loopback IP) for my actual LAN IP,
and voila, suddenly it worked like a charm. However, every time I
restarted ApexDC/StrongDC/DC, it would "reattach" to stupid loopback IP,
so the procedure was more or less useless.

Now, I havn't been using DC for a while. So, the other day I downloaded
and installed ApexDC v1.3.5, and just by curiosity I chose "UPnP" for
connection mode. It worked! And now when I look in the ncpa.cpl it lists
my actual LAN IP, not the loopback IP. I'm so delighted, looks like it
finally works. As I see it, there are two possibilities here. Either the
failure has lied within Windows XP operating system, and thus it has
been fixed by any of the Windows hotfixes that I automatically install
whenever possible, _or_ the issue has actually lied within the DC core,
and has thus been (quite recently) been patched.

Either ways, I'm really happy!

Cheers!
..and thanks for supplying the best DC++ client ever!

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UPnP does not work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/230973
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Status in ApexDC++ - The Pinnacle of File-Sharing: New
Status in DC++: Fix Released
Status in Linux DC++: New

Bug description:
Version 0.706.

I have UPnP configured correctly in my OS (Windows XP) and my router (Linksys WRT54GL). eMule, Miranda, Skype, uTorrent all work fine and correctly setup ports. However, dc++ does not. It used to work few times, but now it just complains that failed to setup ports. I've run upnp sniffer, and it seems that it doesn't even send out UPnP packets.

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