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"This was not a solved problem until now."
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 5mo ago
"This was not a solved problem until now."
- neuralkoi 4mo agoSkype was doing this back in 2003.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 4mo agoNapster "solved" it in 1999 Peers _always_ connected directly to transfer files A third party server kept an index and provided search, it did not forward traffic between peers https://docs.iroh.computer/concepts/nat-traversal.md https://docs.iroh.computer/concepts/nat-traversal.md "If NAT traversal fails, iroh automtically falls back to routing traffic through the relay server" It has not "solved" the hole punching problem any better than anyone in the past Alas, it does worse than predecessors by adding a non-P2P default (cf. option)