-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'd vote no, it's just a headache anytime I've tried using it.
Robin On 6/19/06, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > Do we need to implement UP&P support? It would help in many areas: > - It would allow us to forward ports and detect our real IP address! > - It would make connection work more reliably on dynamic IPs, especially > with nodes with poor uptime. > - It would expand the range of nodes which can be seednodes on opennet. > (To be a seednode you need to be directly connected or port > forwarded). > - It would allow us to implement something like the distribution > servlet. > - It would allow us to usefully implement support for "invitations", one > use darknet references which come with authorization to add the other > side. > > Unfortunately: > - It is grossly insecure if run on a LAN with untrusted users. We would > have to ask the user during setup. > - It is blocked by default on Windows XP SP2. > - Stats on another p2p app which supported UP&P showed it only working > successfully about 50% of the time even when detected... That may have > been bugs in their implementation of course... > > So is it a panacea or a nightmare? Do we want UP&P support? > -- > Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEl1tPHzsuOmVUoi0RAtZLAJ0e6OY025vhXvhugOMv4GwXjifYjgCfSKGW > be9kHwD9WZWi4yDBtW4U26o= > =8KEM > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > - -- Robin Monks, CivicSpace Release Engineer - http://civicspacelabs.com Drupal Marketing Coordinator - http://drupal.org Encrypt! http://tinyurl.com/ffo3l - http://www.gpg4win.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) - WinPT 0.12.1 iD8DBQFEmTICAL2T/sw0d+cRAuR2AKCPntXJGiTPT1NNVwbaBHUFnTHQcQCgiIgw dCj1HkLEdt7Ail3TpWnM42w= =/4z5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
