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lxgryesterday at 3:33 PM1 replyview on HN

> nobody cares about NAT at home.

Only because most people don't know how NAT is hurting them, and because corporations have spent incredible resources on hacking around the problem for when peer to peer is required (essentially only for VoIP latency optimization and gaming).

NAT hurts peer to peer applications much more than cloud services, which are client-server by nature and as such indeed don't care that only outgoing connections are possible.


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LegionMammal978yesterday at 3:50 PM

Even in a NAT-less world, the common advice is to use a firewall rule that disallows incoming connections by default. (And I'd certainly be worried if typical home routers were configured otherwise.) So either way, you'd need the average person to mess with their router configuration, if they want to allow incoming P2P connections without hole-punching tricks. At best, the lack of NAT might save you an address-discovery step.

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