NAT Traversal & bootstraping

[ben]

How is NAT Traversal working in NXT?

I think you have to open port 7874 for the outside peers to connect....

The most ppl dont have...so using UPNP might be an option..

At the moment i think most data transfer is via the "well-known-ip-adresses" hard-coded in software....
this is very centralised and not good for the network (at the moment i only see 6 peers having port 7874 open....)

Bitcoin is using IRC Network for bootstrapping/finding nodes....perhaps this could also be implemented in NXT...

Regards
Ben

[JohnyCrypt]

I'm not a well known node (just announced) but with port 7874 open I've move approx 25B of data.

[ben]

i am also getting strange behaviour with some peers:

active peers:
146.185.168.142  <-- allways jumping in and out

known peers:
hundred of entrys of    146.185.168.142
and also others are double

-> software bug???

[Come-from-Beyond]

It's an interface bug, will be fixed after higher priority issues r fixed.

Data is transferred thru well-known and self-announced peers. Well-known peers used to provide list of other peers that r accessible on the Internet.