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by sktrdie 4461 days ago
I think that's the whole point of firewalls, to control incoming and outgoing connections. So peer-to-peer sometimes is simply impossible. TURN actually is just a proxy as far as I know so it's not p2p.

That's why BitTorrent asks to open specific ports in your router, because otherwise you simply can't do p2p.