holepunchto/hyperdht

Connection metadata

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mafintosh commented

We should expose more metadata about connections, ie.

  • remoteIp
  • holepunchStrategy
  • isLocalNetwork
  • connectionType, utp, udx, tcp etc

etc, we might already expose some and if so document how to access it

lanmower commented

Thanks @mafintosh this will half the latency of my dynamic DNS server

Would it be beneficial to be able to do the ip/network/holepunch part without actually completing a connection? So that computers can discover each other's ip and find out if they're on the same network and some NAT details about how they discovered each other, but without actually setting up a noise stream

I also really like the idea of reporting on lan detections,

Does this imply that hyper can operate on LANs that are offline? I am really interested in using it for local file copies for large datasets (I manage 1.5tb/1 million files)