> Isn't the IP address set in freenet.conf? And the other one would be > 127.0.0.1 > The only thing about that is that with dyndns, I've got mine set as > <snip dns address>, not my ip. > > Alabaster
Keep up. Obviously the IP address is set in freenet.conf but we want to remove that setting from freenet.conf and make it automatic. As I understand it, the suggestion is to add 'what's my IP address please' requests to certain FNP messages sent to other freenet nodes (or maybe put it in all FNP replies sent by nodes regardless of whether it was asked for, but I personally wouldn't recommend that). The issue is naturally that this scheme only works if the other nodes (from which MY node is asking its IP address) are upgraded to a version of code that includes this information in the replies. It's no good my node asking other nodes 'what's my IP address please' if the nodes it's asking doesn't understand the question. A new version of code will enable asking AND ANSWERING the question, but until the majority of nodes are upgraded to the new code, there's little point in the few nodes asking "what's my IP address please" as it won't get an answer. A suggestion - try a few nodes, maybe even try all of them in the routing table, and if no luck make use of something like grc.com (I'm sure there's other, better, more-parsable alternatives). Yes, it's a temporary solution, but by definition it only needs to be anyway. Alternatively simply rely on the more honourable operators to upgrade to the altruistic code and wait and see what happens. Maybe even bump the minimum version - drastic though it may seem, removing a key settings such as IPaddress from .conf is pretty drastic anyway. d _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
