[zeromq-dev] Routers and Nats Question

[Daniel Holth]

The address zeromq thinks it is listening on is unimportant for
establishing a connection. Read up on Nat traversal, you may be able to use
something like libnice. Iirc you may do something like connect to a helper
server which reports the post-nat source port and ip and the other end
opens a connection to that address.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mmusic-ice-tcp-16
On May 5, 2012 6:50 PM, "Brian Duffy" <brduffy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> I'm new to network programming so I hope this is not a silly question ...
> Now that I have the hwserver and hwclient working between my virtual
> private server (at vpslink) and local machine, I am wondering, what if I
> wanted to run the client on the vps machine and the server on my local
> machine? My local machine is behind a router doing NAT translation. The
> external ip address is different than what is listed when I do an ifconfig.
> Ultimately, I want to communicate between machines that would reside in a
> typical home residence sitting behind home routers and acting as both
> servers and clients. The vps would act as a location where the
> server/clients could update a table whenever their dynamic ip addresses
> changed (similar to dynamic dns). The client/server (home) machines could
> check the vps server to get the up to date ip address of the machine they
> are interested in and then communicate directly with another client/server
> (home) machine. But if the client/server (home) machines have an external
> and internal ip address, how can I get a (home) client to connect to a
> (home) server? Is there some way to specify both the external and internal
> address?
>
> Thanks
>
> Brian Duffy
>
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> Duff
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