Pre-Dev-Update Thread! Yay! :D

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@happybeing

It’s not long ago - two or three months I’d guess. This is why nodes can no longer connect from behind NAT / Router and you get an error message if you try.

I’m confused… have the last testnets been using TCP or QUIC? From what @happybeing said I’d think they used QUIC, but the quote belove suggests TCP.

@maidsafe

Unfortunately, we still can’t use QUIC as a transport because the libp2p implementation still wrongly identifies nodes behind NAT as public, and appears to have a larger memory footprint than TCP at the moment.

Or am I just misunderstanding what exactly is less efficient, the connection per se, or hole punhcing?

I mean if the testnets have been connecting via TCP, wouldn’t hole punching there allow us to try nodes from home?