I believe BEEP can do something similar:

http://www.beepcore.org/

On Dec 5, 2007 6:44 AM, Bill Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Now that I've thought about it, it seems stupid to complicate the P2P
> protocol I'm working on (netfs) to support a STUN-like service, since
> this service seems generic, and not in any way specific to my P2P
> application.
>
> Does anyone out there know of an existing P2P network designed to
> provide STUN-like peer connections?  The idea would be to require each
> peer to have unique user name, and put them into a DHT.  Each peer would
> always keep a few live TCP connections to nodes in the DHT, and these
> nodes would provide STUN (or better) connection services.  It could be
> used for SIP, IM, or any other P2P service that makes sense.  Peers
> would specify which protocols they accept, and nodes in the DHT would
> help them connect to each other.  It would be a bit like a
> world-wide-inetd.  Has this been implemented yet, and if not, does the
> idea have merit?  It sounds nearly trivial to implement, assuming a good
> STUN-like library and DHT library can be found.
>
> Bill
>
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