abuse upnp to do local peer discovery
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Description
In networks that don't have mdns, but do allow upnp (does this ever happen?) we can abuse upnp to find other peers on the local network. If we add our peer ID to the upnp entry, other nodes can do a upnp listing and find us that way.
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Research direction
No files or tests are named. First investigate how local peer discovery and mDNS are implemented and whether UPnP is available in the target networks; define the peer-ID advertisement and listing behavior and a testable success condition before changing code.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- distributed-systems, networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100