I think we should get rid of the transient setting, the reason being that it is relatively straightforward for a node to guess whether it is likely to be transient or not.
I would suggest that all nodes remain in "transient" mode automatically until 6 hours after they come on-line. Nodes could also keep track of what percentage of the day they are online for, and switch back to transient if it is less than a certain percentage (say 80%). This gets rid of the ugly manual transient setting. By a similar token, we should investigate whether the FNP protocol can be enhanced to support a "tell me my IP address" message, so that we have a reliable way to automatically determine a nodes IP address. Ian. -- Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] Latest Project http://cematics.com/kanzi Personal Homepage http://locut.us/
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