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

[Jody Harris]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Shawn Willden <shawn at willden.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Am I to understand this to mean that resolving this issue is not a priority
for the tahoe development team?
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