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For those looking to do this programmatically, it is so easy these days. This project uses the Python library Stem [0] and I wrote one for Go called Bine [1]. Firing up a website on an onion service from your home computer is really easy, and busts NAT by its nature.

0 - https://stem.torproject.org/ 1 - https://github.com/cretz/bine

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I wonder if you could use this to make an OnionSync. Like Syncthing but perhaps simpler to use because of global addressing and no need to configure between nodes. (Though I've only briefly looked at Syncthing.

You don't need to configure Syncthing either, you just pair it and then it automatically always just works.

If you control both sides of the connection, ZeroTier is probably a more efficient "NAT-busting E2E-encrypted overlay network" solution than anything Tor-based.

Being able to embed the Tor daemon right into my program, and still using an existing Tor daemon if available, is pretty pretty compelling.

Well, it can't bust NAT444 on both sides :) I've had to set up a moon on a VPS in my city, and now it's great.

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