This was discussed before, you can check the devl archives. The conclusion then seemed to be "it isn't worth the hassle" which I thought was strange-- the original complaint was by someone (I forget who) whose external IP changes daily, if not more often. I tried to point out that it's more hassle for the end user to update his config every time his IP address changes, especially when he may not even know precisely when it has changed (other than by noticing that his freenet traffic has suddenly dropped to zero). I don't believe any subsequent conclusion was reached.
You're right, the current situation is a bit mad. I'd like to see replies from the other nodes saying "here's the data I'm sending you or a connection response or whatever but hey, this is what your IP address looks like to me". Wouldn't that be just super? It means external IP address detection would even work when you're behind a NAT (though of course you'd still need to config your NAT to route the port, but that's a one-off change, and finding out your external IP address for some brands of 'plug-and-play' DSL/cable routers is way more difficult than asking said router to forward a single TCPIP port) Could we please open this up to discussion again? Why can't the nodes reflect the 'observed' return IP address in at least some of their responses? (Or, of course, do they already? Or supposed to?) d > While we're on the topic of IP detecting: > > I've routed my Freenet node through a NAT > (masquerading), so I have an internal LAN address, > with an appropriate return port that gets routed back > to me. 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? The node that I send a request to would > simply reply to the IP address from which the request > *appears* to be sent from, and all is well. I don't > see any greater spoofing danger than now (where it > appears I can set it to whatever I want). Obviously > not as a default setting, but as an option I think > it'd be nice. > > Kjella > > ______________________________________________________ > F? den nye Yahoo! Messenger p? http://no.messenger.yahoo.com/ > Nye ikoner og bakgrunner, webkamera med superkvalitet og dobbelt s? morsom > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > devl at freenetproject.org > http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
