| ▲ | slim 3 days ago | |
what kind of p2p protocols are you thinking of ? | ||
| ▲ | throw0101d 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> what kind of p2p protocols are you thinking of ? Skype was originally P2P, but because of NAT there had to exist "supernodes" which did STUN/TURN/ICE shenanigans to make it work (which caused scaling issues since there weren't enough of them): * https://spectrum.ieee.org/skype-scuppered-by-problem-with-su... * https://www.zdnet.com/article/skype-ditched-peer-to-peer-sup... | ||
| ▲ | tonymet 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
file sharing, messaging, gaming, VOIP/VideoOIP, etc. basically everything we have today that has to route through a gateway in the cloud could be p2p . They actually all were int he 90s (e..g Napster, Limewire, ICQ) until vulnerabilities drove investment in aggressive firewall | ||