[tahoe-dev] Tahoe-lafs and nodes behind NAT (behind another NAT)

[Shawn Willden]

On Friday 18 December 2009 08:00:24 am Jody Harris wrote:
> I'm just desperately brainstorming here. My dreams of my tahoe-lafs grid
> are still smoldering in the heap that is left after the realization of the
> problems introduced by non-publics IPs.

NAT and the associated loss of the original peer-based structure of the 
Internet has done immeasureable damage to Internet innovation.  Asymmetric 
network connections and ISP terms of service that restrict home "consumers" 
from running "servers" have also done some damage, but we can mostly deal 
with the former and just ignore the latter.  NAT, on the other hand, is a 
killer.

IPv6 is our best hope, but adoption is agonizingly slow.  Comcast has 
announced that their network will provide IPv6 to all subscribers in the next 
two years; hopefully that will catalyze other ISPs to follow suit, and home 
router manufacturers to properly configure their v6 stacks.  But at best 
we're probably 5 years from realistically being able to expect every home 
user to just have a v6 connection.  At best.

	Shawn.