On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 05:36:53PM -0400, Colin Davis wrote: > > > >90%+ of nodes don't know their IP address when first installed, > >because > >they are behind a router/NAT/PAT. UP&P and STUN let us find it. The > >problem with STUN is that it can probably be fingerprinted. > >Additionally > >UP&P lets a NATed node which doesn't know its IP address connect to > >another node. Right now a new NATed node which doesn't know its IP > >address can only connect to a port forwarded node - this is a serious > >limitation to connectivity! > >> > > Right! This is IMO, the main benefit UP&P allows. That was the point > of my e-mail. I apologize for apparently not making my points clearer.
Not the only benefit. UP&P lets us port forward, and find our IP. Both are valuable; the former lets us do invitations, for example, without having to do darknet ref exchange in both directions. It also lets us do opennet bootstrapping; any node which is a seednode will have to be port forwarded. And it lets us do HTTP-based invites, TCP transport, and so on... > -Colin -- 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/tech/attachments/20060621/1299f1fa/attachment.pgp>
