[Freedombox-discuss] finding each other. was: Re: I'm new here

[weaver@riseup.net (Weaver)]

On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:21:37 -0500
Jason <freedombox at lakedaemon.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 06:57:31PM -0500, James Vasile wrote:
> > how FreedomBoxes find each other on the net across firewalls, NATs,
> > meshes, dynamic addresses and the like.  And how can we make that
> > anonymous when it needs to be?
> 
> I've been thinking about a small daemon listening on localhost.  A tor
> hidden service would connect incoming requests to it.  It would then
> do a Skype-like negotiation to create a point-to-point VPN outside of
> the Tor cloud.  I'm thinking openvpn with UDP transport.  UDP is
> easier to firewall-punch.

Perhaps this might have something that would be useful.
At least a few scraps of code:

http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/tcptraceroute

Regards,

Weaver.
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