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Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
RFC 5389

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2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['SIPs', 'NAT', 'STUN', 'Traversal', 'ICE', 'firewall', 'TURN', 'VOIP']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "D. Wing": changed name from "Dan Wing" to "D. Wing", cleared country (was "US"), changed order from "2" to "4"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "P. Matthews": changed name from "Philip Matthews" to "P. Matthews", changed order from "0" to "3"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "R. Mahy": changed name from "Rohan Mahy" to "R. Mahy", changed order from "3" to "2"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "J. Rosenberg": changed name from "Jonathan Rosenberg" to "J. Rosenberg", cleared country (was "US")
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2020-02-22
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created obsoletes relation between draft-ietf-behave-rfc3489bis and RFC 8489)
2018-12-20
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) is a protocol that serves as a tool for other …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) is a protocol that serves as a tool for other protocols in dealing with Network Address Translator (NAT) traversal. It can be used by an endpoint to determine the IP address and port allocated to it by a NAT. It can also be used to check connectivity between two endpoints, and as a keep-alive protocol to maintain NAT bindings. STUN works with many existing NATs, and does not require any special behavior from them.

STUN is not a NAT traversal solution by itself. Rather, it is a tool to be used in the context of a NAT traversal solution. This is an important change from the previous version of this specification (RFC 3489), which presented STUN as a complete solution.

This document obsoletes RFC 3489. [STANDARDS-TRACK]')
2015-10-14
(System) Notify list changed from behave-chairs@ietf.org, philip_matthews@magma.ca, draft-ietf-behave-rfc3489bis@ietf.org to (None)
2013-02-23
(System) Posted related IPR disclosure: SSH Communications Security Corporation's Statement about IPR related to RFC 5389
2008-10-28
Cindy Morgan State Changes to RFC Published from RFC Ed Queue by Cindy Morgan
2008-10-28
Cindy Morgan [Note]: 'RFC 5389' added by Cindy Morgan
2008-10-24
(System) RFC published