On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Jonathan Bennett <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 8:03 AM Michael Rash <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:20 AM, Rabin Yasharzadehe <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Jonathan Bennett <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I strongly want to implement the juicessh plugin stuff. It will take
>>>> time, but it'll get there.
>>>>
>>>
>>> ​Looking forward to it.​
>>>
>>>
>>>> One last note: the web site that was used for ip address lookup was
>>>> painfully slow. The new app doesn't do the lookup until a knock is
>>>> sent that uses "resolve ip", but I was often waiting 60 seconds or
>>>> longer for that lookup to finish. After looking a bit, I decided to
>>>> use http://whatismyip.akamai.com. It is *much* quicker to respond. I
>>>> might add an option to select which site to use in the future. It
>>>> seems that there should be a better way to get the public IP, but I
>>>> have yet to work out what that would be. Depending on a 3rd party web
>>>> site seems less than ideal, but again, I have no alternative yet.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> ​On my PC I use DNS query to resolve my external IP using opendns servers
>>>
>>> # dig myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com +short
>>> # or over tcp
>>> # dig myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com +short +tcp
>>>
>>
>> This might be good to add to the fwknop client since OpenDNS will have
>> far faster responses than the cipherdyne.org server ever could, although
>> some users prefer to resolve via SSL. Still, it would be good to have this
>> as an option.
>>
> Oh wow, that is ridiculously fast. I will see how difficult this is to
> make work. This also seems like an inherently better method than using an
> http lookup.
>

Resolving IP over udp is much faster and lighter in resource,
​Because you skip the 3 way hand sake you have with a tcp connection
and you don't have to open a ssl connection for a https connection.

but it also less reliable :)

--
Rabin
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