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kkapelontoday at 4:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

isn't this exactly what tailscale (and also zerotier, netmaker) do?

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works


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dmantistoday at 5:10 PM

That only works for the infrastructure of one entity. It doesn't establish direct connection to my friend's device by a key pair if he is outside of the particular organisation tailscale VPN.

p2p apps need direct connections.

moritzruthtoday at 4:54 PM

Those are intended to solve the problem at the OS layer, while Iroh (being a library) does it at the application layer.

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