Distributed peering

[stevefan1999-personal]

Coming from a distributed computing perspective, I find it curious why can't we use a DHT to store all the peers' information -- like using Kademlia or even Raft to advertise/announce its IP addresses/available point of contacts, then we could do full mesh using this kind of dynamic configuration rather than statically placing peers ahead-of-time.

In fact, I'm about to experiment this with a FUSE filesystem that peers could self-exchange their network information, and use the include peers feature of fastd to dynamically reload them. Then I try to use any routing protocol like BATMAN-adv, OSPF or even BGP to calculate network paths -- to achieve high availability and fault tolerance during unusual network conditions.

The only problem left is how the would the nodr self-test their available endpoints. Some system of mine is behind NAT and do not have any port forwarding open, and some hole punching tech like WebRTC, STRN or TURN maybe needed. This would complicate routing though as the node information is likely transparent to the control plane at this point. What about having a gossip protocol?