On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 03:39:44PM -0500, scgmille at freenetproject.org wrote: > Also, does Fred check for reserved address ranges? It seems this would > be able to rule out most publicly inaccessible interfaces.
Yes. tcpTransport.Address(). 0.*, 192.168.*, 10.* etc will all be rejected as invalid addresses. Something very strange is happening on Niklas's node; maybe he is misreading it, or maybe he doesn't actually have a routable IP address. > > Scott > > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:32:25PM +0200, Niklas Bergh wrote: > > This is from the fascinating world of Microsoft.. > > > > I was very surprised to notice that after the last restart fred was bound to > > this to me previously unknown interface on my computer: > > > > Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3: > > > > Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : > > Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft TV/Video Connection > > Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00 > > Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes > > Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes > > Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 5.0.1.0 > > Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255 > > Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : > > > > Some research uncovered that this strange new interface would be the camera > > in my new Sony Ericsson T610 phone connected to my computer via bluetooth... > > Luckily enough it would seem that many nodes around the network already had > > a valid noderef for my node so they just kept the requests coming :) > > > > Would it be too much to ask that fred, when it scans through all of the > > computers available interfaces, at least tries to stay with the interface > > that can be found in the 'node' file if it still is present in the system > > (even if a new interface or two have appeared). > > > > /N > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > devl mailing list > > devl at freenetproject.org > > http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > > > -- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20030528/a40bc850/attachment.pgp>
