On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 04:49:30PM +1200, Phillip Hutchings wrote: > >But if I understand, Freenet can't work on a network without fixed IP > >or dns server ? > >Freenet can't work with an internal IP and port redirection from the > >external IP so no way to go throw a firewall ? > >Lot of constraint for trying to make a free network with everyone. > > Freenet works fine with ports forwarded from the firewall, but it > doesn't use uPNP or anything, so you need to manually forward the port.
Do any other major apps? Does Apache? Does Kazaa? I honestly don't know in the latter case, if somebody does know, I'd like to hear from them. But what I heard was that UPNP was only slightly standardized and you'll end up writing custom code for every router... > You do need to keep the port number the same between the firewall and > host. I know, I've done it. These days I run it on my firewall machine > - small network, only that machine stays on 24/7 :P > > >I am force to make a little program who will modify the freenet.ini > >for changing the IP and unloading and reloading Freenet? I wonder why > >so basic things are not implement in Freenet. > > Or use a service such as dyndns.org and put your hostname in your > freenet.ini. Freenet has routines to check for IP changes (I've > disabled them - static IP), so it should work pretty well once it's > established, but before that it needs to announce an IP and port to > connect to over the network so people start connecting to it. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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