[p2p-hackers] gig announcement

[Greg Rolan]

Hi people,

I'm not sure if this sort of post is allowed on this list so apologies 
if this contravenes the etiquette conventions here.

We're a small startup developing a broadly distributed application which 
requires an dht overlay network for information lookup.  I've been 
playing around with various open-source dht implementations, lurking in 
this list and trying to find a good solution for the NAT traversal 
issues.  Many members have posted good suggestions for approaches to a 
number of problems and it appears that there is the makings of a fairly 
good (and I acknowledge that  good is not perfect or even great) solution.

What we would like to do is engage someone to do some integration work 
based on an existing code-base or even buy a commercial ready-to-go 
implementation of  dht node code which addresses NAT/Firewall traversal 
issues using a mix of Firewall port-forwarding registration, hole 
punching and proxy nodes (super-node) strategies.  We would possibly be 
interested in working with another organisations to achieve common goals 
in this area. I appreciate that the search for a solution will be an 
ongoing activity.

For questions, offers, suggestions or more information (a specification 
document) please reply off-list (unless you think it is relevant to the 
list).

Thanks - and apologies again if this post was inappropriate.

Greg


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