On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 06:26:24PM +0200, Tuomas Lukinmaa wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: > > >Asking nodes to tell you your IP address is just evil > > Not to mention if hosts have IPv6 addresses in-use which might require > additional processing, or if Freenet is ported to use special networking > functions which does not use IP addresses at all (quick example which > comes to mind could be using VLAN's and plain Ethernet frames to > communicate). AFAIK IP6 does not work with freenet. We certainly don't have any code to support it. > > If such address-resolving feature is added, it should be as generic (and > optional) as possible so it does not impact the use of rest of the protocol. A way to discover the ip address locally has been suggested and is being implemented.
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