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

[Bernard Traversat]

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.
>
> From what I have seen. most DHT algorithms assume that any peer is  
> directly reachable
> from any other peer, which is not true when peers are located behind  
> NATs.
> Both Chord and Kademlia, for example, seem to make this assumption.

You may want to check JXTA (www.jxta.org). JXTA is implementing a 
loosely-coupled
DHT with NAT/Firewall traversal support.

Hth,

B.

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