Response: NAT Traversal Mess « ipSpace.net blog
Let’s look at another part of the lengthy comment Bob left after listening to the Rise of NAT podcast. This one is focused on the NAT traversal mess: You mentioned that only video-conferencing and BitTorrent use client-to-client connectivity (and they are indeed the main use cases), but hell, do they need to engineer complex systems to circumvent these NATs and firewalls: STUN, TURN, ICE, DHT… Cleaning up the acronym list first: DHT is unlike the others and has nothing to do with NAT.
