The node still includes routed ping support. This essentially is a way to ping a location. The ping is routed, within the limits of HTL. It was used for testing the code in quasi-simulation, and may still be useful for that purpose. The question is, should it be disabled on the main network? It is not sufficiently reliable to be a useful communication mechanism, especially when you consider that it is directed to a node location, not to a node identity... It might be possible to ping locations from the list captured for network size estimation, and thereby estimate how many of them are still online. However, it is unreliable, and spoofable.
Is it a security risk? -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20060616/0be13ff3/attachment.pgp>
