[chord] Chord and NAT

[Michael Walfish]

| Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:50:25 -0500
| From: Emil Sit <sit at mit.edu>
| To: Scott Briggs <scott.br at gmail.com>
| Cc: chord at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu, baford at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu
| Subject: Re: [chord] Chord and NAT
| 
| On Thu, 10 February 2005 at 16:39 (+0100), Scott Briggs wrote:
| > application based on p2p and I was wondering if you guys had looked at
| > or tried to solve the problem of traversing the various different
| > kinds of NAT implementations.  Thanks.
| 
| We have not looked at it specifically in the context of the
| Chord implementation.  However, there is some related work in
| our research group on a project called UIP [1].  They include
| investigation in to some NAT traversal techniques [2].
| 
| One day in the future, there might be things like DOA [3] to
| help you out.
| 
| [1] http://uip.sourceforge.net/
| [2] http://midcom-p2p.sourceforge.net/
| [3] http://nms.csail.mit.edu/papers/doa-osdi04.html

See, also, [2.5], which describes techniques the "near future" might hold.

[2.5] http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/francis/nutss-fdna.pdf