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Satoshi follows up that he is connected to IP 70.113.114.209 and notes Bohm may have an outgoing-connection issue if not. The IP was later identified as likely Dustin Trammell's in Austin, Texas.
Satoshi's candid reply to Bohm's connectivity issue, admitting there may be no other nodes running at that moment. He encourages Bohm to keep his server online so new users have someone to connect to.
Bohm reports to Satoshi that Bitcoin has failed to establish any connections for over a day, despite restarts. He had been maintaining 3-5 node connections prior to July 15th.
Satoshi advises Bohm to forward port 8333 on his new router so his Bitcoin node can receive incoming connections, explaining that without inbound-capable nodes online, the network fails to function.
Satoshi tells Finney that he cannot receive incoming connections from his location, revealing an operational constraint in the earliest days of the Bitcoin network.
Editorial forensic reading of Satoshi's operational environment during Bitcoin v0.1 launch week (Jan 8-12, 2009): "from where I am" in the Jan 10 email to Finney, and dense activity cadence.