On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 08:18:00PM -0400, colin at sq7.org wrote: > WRT Stun- > > Remind me again which of these we can't get with a combination of ARKs, > and connecting to a non-firewalled node?
You can get the IP address. It is completely unreasonable to expect every newbie who shows up to be required to connect to a port forwarded node first. Also STUN is easy. > You can detect if the ports are forwarded bylooking for unrequested packets. > Between the two of these, STUN seems unnecessary, and since it uses > standardied servers, potentially dangerous. Possibly. There will be a config option in the installer. > > Is this solely to help firewalled nodes make their first connection to > another firewalled node? Wouldn't it be better to require that one of > their early connections be to a working/non-firewalled/port-forwarded > node? No. It is unreasonable to make that requirement IMHO. -- 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/20060622/cf1231aa/attachment.pgp>
