Hi,

I've noticed GtkG (and probably any other servent) doesn't handle the
case very well when you connect to it on a local network. I.e., I'm
connected per 127.0.0.1 and my internet-routed address. This happened
automatically. I assume the same could happen with NAT or transparent
proxies because comparing IPs proves little. The same node can have
multiple IPs and different nodes can have the same IPs. Maybe GtkG could
sent a cookie-like header e.g., the GUID to prevent connecting the same
node more than once on accident. Of course, this isn't a security
feature as this header can be faked but if you're connected to 100
leaves and let's say 25 of them are duplicates you're wasting resources.

Christian

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