On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 07:58:24PM +0200, Sebastian Sp?th wrote:
> Ian Clarke wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 11:47:44AM +0200, Sebastian Sp?th wrote:
> >
> >>You might want to set the IPaddress to 127.0.0.1 by default (or we need
> >> to change the setup.java utility to assume 127.0.0.1 by default)
> >>becasue we get an error afterwards.
> >>
> >
> >Nooooo! The IP address given here is the IP address which a node will
> >tell other nodes to connect to, obviously 127.0.0.1 is inappropriate for
> >this. It must be the IP address that other nodes must connect to to
> >reach this node.
>
>
> So what do you have to do for dial up nodes where the IP changes on
> every start? These are transient nodes so nobody should need to connect
Actually, many of them are permanent nodes, (my ISP keeps a dialup open for
several days before forcing reconnect).
> to them, yet do they require a value. I was told that using any value
> e.g. 127.0.0.1 is fine for these transient nodes.
> Otherwise the node itself should figure its current IP on startup itself
> *if* there is *no* value specified.
> It's hardly appropriate to change the .ini entry by an external porgram
> before every start, is it?
>
> Sebastian
>
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