STUN is indeed used by SIP to traverse NAT, as part of a whole pile of techniques called ICE.
STUN is indeed used by SIP to traverse NAT, as part of a whole pile of techniques called ICE. However, this ultimately requires that you have a central server on which you can "advertise" your SIP presence and exchange SDP data. Yes, the session payload transport (RTP) is peer to peer, but the signalling still requires a central point. > How can I get your js/css from outside, if you are behind NAT? The same way you get the HTML, whatever approach is used. I don't think it's impossible to build a system involving distributing "advertisements" saying how to reach systems on a distributed hash table, then using either ports opened through UPNP on home routers or a "supernode" collection of STUN servers to communicate to home systems. There are three big downsides to this which are probably why we've not seen one yet: - no way to monetise it if it's truly distributed and open source => reduced incentive to build and maintain - no central party to fight spam and abuse => system will drown in spam and abuse - necessarily broadcasts an association between home IP address and person => vulnerable to privacy problems and DOS attacks
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Legit what one of our clients problem was.
sounds painful, just searched on "how can i get ms office running in linux using wine" and the results included a containerised windows v...
Appreciate MCP server availability, will help integrate with Claude.
Maybe a different take, but as someone that manages a large public API that allows anonymous access, IPv6 has been a nightmare to try and...
Why is there no write through unionfs in Linux?
> why is there no in-memory kafka server that I can use for simple testing purposes https://github.com/embeddedkafka/...
> why is there no in-memory kafka server that I can use for simple testing purposes.
I went from daily driving mac and being very used to the desktop environment, and i am really hating everything i've tried in Linux.
STUN is indeed used by SIP to traverse NAT, as part of a whole pile of techniques called ICE.
STUN is indeed used by SIP to traverse NAT, as part of a whole pile of techniques called ICE. However, this ultimately requires that you have a central server on which you can "advertise" your SIP presence and exchange SDP data. Yes, the session payload transport (RTP) is peer to peer, but the signalling still requires a central point. > How can I get your js/css from outside, if you are behind NAT? The same way you get the HTML, whatever approach is used. I don't think it's impossible to build a system involving distributing "advertisements" saying how to reach systems on a distributed hash table, then using either ports opened through UPNP on home routers or a "supernode" collection of STUN servers to communicate to home systems. There are three big downsides to this which are probably why we've not seen one yet: - no way to monetise it if it's truly distributed and open source => reduced incentive to build and maintain - no central party to fight spam and abuse => system will drown in spam and abuse - necessarily broadcasts an association between home IP address and person => vulnerable to privacy problems and DOS attacks
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