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what kind of p2p protocols are you thinking of ?
by slim 1y ago
what kind of p2p protocols are you thinking of ?
- tonymet 1y agofile sharing, messaging, gaming, VOIP/VideoOIP, etc. basically everything we have today that has to route through a gateway in the cloud could be p2p . They actually all were int he 90s (e..g Napster, Limewire, ICQ) until vulnerabilities drove investment in aggressive firewall
- throw0101d 1y ago> what kind of p2p protocols are you thinking of ? Skype was originally P2P, but because of NAT there had to exist "supernodes" which did STUN/TURN/ICE shenanigans to make it work (which caused scaling issues since there weren't enough of them): * https://spectrum.ieee.org/skype-scuppered-by-problem-with-supernodes-millions-affected-worldwide https://spectrum.ieee.org/skype-scuppered-by-problem-with-su... * https://www.zdnet.com/article/skype-ditched-peer-to-peer-supernodes-for-scalability-not-surveillance/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/skype-ditched-peer-to-peer-sup...