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Holesail is a simple and flexible solution for creating a distributed hash table (DHT) server. It allows you to expose your local port to the network, making it accessible to other nodes.

Before using Holesail, make sure you have Node.js installed on your system. You can download Node.js from the official website: https://nodejs.org/en/download/

Once Node.js is installed, you can install Holesail Server using npm (Node Package Manager):

npm i holesail -g

To start a local Holesail Server, use the following command:

holesail --live port

Replace port with the desired port number you want to expose to the network.

This will give you a seed to connect to, use that to acess this server from anywhere:

holesail --connect SEED --port

Available options:

--live PORT: Create a tunnel on this port

--connect SEED: Connect to a tunnel using the seed generated from --live command

--host ADDRESS: Default address is 127.0.0.1, use it to change address to localhost or other

--port PORT: Use this option with --connect to set a custom port instead of the default port 8989

To start a local Holesail Server on port 8080, use the following command:

holesail --live 8080

If you need help or want to see the usage instructions, use the following command:

holesail --help

Holesail Server includes graceful goodbye functionality, which ensures that the server is properly shut down when you close the terminal or interrupt the process.

Holesail Server is released under the GPL-3.0 License. See the LICENSE file for more information.

Contributions are welcome! If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

Holesail is built using the following open-source projects:

• hypertele: https://github.com/bitfinexcom/hypertele
• holepunch: https://holepunch.to
• holesail-server: https://github.com/holesail/holesail-server)

and other node packages.