1) Yes, with most reasonable firewalls, unless you configure it in extremely paranoid mode.
1) Yes. However, you don't need hole punching if you're contacting a non-NATted server. Your client application just behaves normally.
UDP hole punching is a complex topic, and many attempts have been made to find a solution that works. The problem is that there are so many different NAT routers out there, and there is no standard way of implementing NAT, so all routers behave a bit different.
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