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How is it for getting around weird networks (double NAT, etc)?

• StavrosK 8y ago
  It's been great every time I've used it, I think it has a relay server as a last resort if it can't get a p2p connection. Never had problems with it.
• deathanatos 8y ago
  > The library depends upon a “rendezvous server”, which is a service (on a public IP address) that delivers small encrypted messages from one client to the other. This must be the same for both clients, and is generally baked-in to the application source code or default config. > This library includes the URL of a public rendezvous server run by the author. Application developers can use this one, or they can run their own (see the https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole-mailbox-server https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole-mailbox-server repository) > For now, bulk data is sent through a “Transit” object, which does not use the Rendezvous Server. Instead, it tries to establish a direct TCP connection from sender to recipient (or vice versa). If that fails, both sides connect to a “Transit Relay”, a very simple Server that just glues two TCP sockets together when asked. If I understand the docs correctly, it always uses a centralized server to establish the transfer. Once the transfer is established, it'll attempt to transfer the files directly, if possible, but if not, it'll fall back to using a relay. And so many people are trapped behind NAT these days, I don't know that the need for this will be all that unusual.