Nostr Web Client

Are you opening a port? Using upnp? Or a tunnel like ngrok?

Fuckin hell! That's impressive though as long as it works, but the lengths we go to avoid opening a port is crazy, meanwhile Bittorrent have been using upnp like there is no tomorrow!

There is still the problem of discovery (when suddenly I don't have common relays with the nsecbunker service provider for some reason).

Using Nostr as a replacement for good old web platforms instead of decentralized DNS (Pkarr) and opening port when necessary, sounds as extreme as using p2p stack and holepunching, just more browser friendly.

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PABLOF7z 2y ago

I need to look more at pkarr; I haven’t tried it since you released it a few months ago but I’m intrigued

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Nuh 2y ago

Well, now is a good time because I just got it to work from behind NAT.

Long story short it is a decentralized root DNS server, you can publish any Resourfe Records for a ed25519 public key and anyone can resolve it from anywhere.

Limitations: it is slow so you need to cache it aggressively, and it is ephemeral so someone needs to keep republishing it every hour or so.

```

npm i -g pkarr

pkarr publish

```

Once you are done you can run the pkarr keepalive command, or just give me the key and I will keep it alive for you.

Plenty of work can be done to make it a robust system and add DNS over HTTPs, but I feel getting feedback is as important at this stage.