[p2p-hackers] Work on NAT-friendly DHTs?

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:09:10AM -0500, Philip Matthews wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone is aware of work on NAT-friendly DHT  
> algorithms?
> In other words, a DHT algorithm that works with the peers are located  
> behind NATs.

I believe all of the widely-deployed DHTs use un-NATed peers to make
up the DHT and allow NATed peers to act as DHT clients (they can issue
queries and publish information, but they don't do any routing).  I
know eMule's Kad network does this at minimum.

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Daniel Stutzbach                           Computer Science Ph.D Student
http://www.barsoom.org/~agthorr                     University of Oregon