I've been looking at the peers linking to my full node again. One of them has sparked my interest - the IP is listed as 52.17.57.25:8333 via 46.233.116.251:52951
Another on is the 0.12 version of the core - this IP is 98.250.82.63:8333 (no redirection)
The first IP is registered to Amazon in Dublin Ireland, the second IP is my current connection. My questions are -
Is Amazon now accepting Bitcoin directly, if they are running a full node?
No. It is just someone running a full node on an Amazon Web services VPS
Why is traffic being redirected to port 52951 at my IP ( I'm on McDonalds free WiFi again)? All peers do this except for the 0.12 peer
I believe it is an internal thing because that is an outbound connection. The other one is probably inbound which should be why it has no redirect.
What is the change in 0.12 that avoids the re-direction? Can we expect an improvement in transfer speeds as a result of this?
AFAIK there shouldn't be anything that in 0.12 that does that. See above.