Approximately six weeks after the port forwarding fix, Bohm reported a new connectivity failure:
Bitcoin has failed to establish any connections for the last day or so, despite restarts.
Bohm noted he had been maintaining 3-5 node connections prior to July 15th, providing a valuable data point about the size of the active Bitcoin network in mid-2009. The fact that even a connected node with proper port forwarding could lose all peers suggests the network was extremely small at this time.
[Source: COPA v. Craig Wright trial evidence, filed as part of Nicholas Bohm’s witness statement {C/10/1}.]