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Why though? Was the Inscape mothership behind a NAT they didn't control?
by huhtenberg 9y ago
Why though? Was the Inscape mothership behind a NAT they didn't control?
- samstave 9y agoNo, the TV needs to initiate the connection to the mothership to punch the hole. This then allows the mothership to send commands to the TV over UDP to manage its activities.
- api 9y agoThat's not P2P hole punching. That's just a UDP to a cloud server. Stateful firewalls remember UDP sessions for a period of time. UDP hole punching is when both parties are behind NAT and it's used almost exclusively for P2P: torrents, VoIP phones, video chat, multiplayer games, ZeroTier, WebRTC, IPFS, etc.