[Tox Support] Dynamic IP Addrs

Zetok Zalbavar zetok at openmailbox.org
Thu Sep 3 09:29:57 UTC 2015


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On 02.09.2015 20:06, e-tge wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I looked through the docs - very exciting.
> 
> Two questions though (for which I could not find an answer
> anywhere):
> 
> 1) Many people use computers at home connected to the WWW through
> some router supplied by Internet-providers. My computer uses DHCP
> and may have a different IP address every time (let's say 1.2.3.4),
> the same applies to my router (e.g. 2.3.4.5), which finally NATs my
> computer's address to the outside world (2.3.4.44). Same applies to
> my friend I'm about to call ... How is this supposed to work
> considering the peer-to-peer concept?

Well, it just works™ ;)

UDP hole-punching is used, and if that doesn't work, then TCP-relay is
used to make an initial connection between peers.


> 2) What stands DHT for? (Possibly that answers 1 :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table :)


> Thx tge
> 


Thanks for asking - I've added link to wikipedia article on what is
DHT in FAQ section.


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