I’m trying to figure something out regarding how I can create communication between 2 machines using the internet as the communication line.
Idea
I would like to have a windows service/application that know how to talk to a web site for the first place (that’s easy) but since that time, the web site should query that machine and ask information.
Scenario
Let’s imagine that I install this application on my machine, I set up where and how I have my local database and now I want to be able to use a webpage to query that database.
Protocols
I’m trying to figure it out the PPP (Point-to-Point) protocol and the idea is something that we regularly use with torrents… but I can’t find any information on this under .NET
Propose
The main propose for all of this is to make it easy to persons install this application (mainly a Web Service) but to avoid teach them how to set up a domain name to point to their server, as well figuring out how to get the endpoint of the just-installed web service… I would like to “Hey, please install and set your credentials, let the configuration with me“
Is there any library that I can use to create such environment?
How about the peer-to-peer api in .net?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.peertopeer.aspx