yes yes and hell yes! ^_^  this makes a lot of sense

On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Ian Clarke wrote:

> 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.
> 
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