> Kjell Rune Skaaraas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > However, rather than defining it myself
> > whenever my IP changes, or running some kind of
> > dynamic DNS, applications like mIRC do a
> server-side
> > lookup. How difficult would it be to do the same
> for
> > Freenet?

> --- Greg Wooledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: 
> 
> One of the simpler forms of the proposal is this:
> 
> (long & complex proposal removed)

Granted, to include it in the *default* IP detection
mechanism would be a complex change. What I was hoping
for would be to set it manually to a setting of
"remote lookup" instead of setting it to a specific IP
address. The responding node would then simply have to
respond to the IP it was sent from (permanently). Of
course a node too old to recognize it wouldn't return
the packet, but if I have no valid IP to send to begin
with, we're no worse off than before. 

Oh and I really don't see why it is important for *my*
node to know its public IP address. If I manage get a
packet back at all, I have already achieved what I
wanted to do! As long as my node figures out the
correct private IP to send from (LAN IP), everybody
else can figure out the public address themselves. To
the best of my knowledge, noone is using masquerading
(only forwarding) on incoming transmissions, so that
should not be a problem. In fact, a simple "return to
sender" return address would require people to spoof
their source IP in order to redirect traffic...

If you still need to implement it over an IPv4 address
to not change the structure, simply pick an illegal IP
and define it as "ignore IP in Freenet packet, return
to source IP of the TCP/IP connection instead".

Kjella

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