[Opensim-dev] STUN for OpenSim?

[Stefan Andersson]

One of the main shortcomings of the linden-legacy model is that OpenSim does
not work well (as in simple and consistent)  from behind NATs and several
home routers.

 

I was thinking, if something like STUN could help us overcome this?

 

There is a c# implementation here;

http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=SharpStunt

 

I was thinking something like there could be well-known public STUN servers
operating (maybe on grids) that could help clients and regions connect to
regions that are behind NATs (ideally  even without them having to configure
port forwarding). I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but I could imagine the
Grider proxy could play a role in proof-of-concepting it until we can get a
viewer port that would support if natively.

 

STUN could also help regions connect when communicating region-to-region.

 

Is this even feasible? Anybody had actual experience with STUN?

 

/Stefan

 

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