I know, the developers have now more important problems than Freenet node owners 
behind a NAT or blocking 
Firewall. Some developers doesn't want to enable the access to Freenet, if the node is 
blocked.

I know, the Freenet Node Protocol needs a possibility to contact every node (transient 
and permanent), if the 
request needs a long time.


One workaround is: permanent node owners share their mainport service or/and FCP-port 
to the community.
->this way the blocked users must trust the node owner; this access to Freenet can 
easily get blocked by 
providers, ...

Another workaround:
[from the config file]
# How long to listen on an inactive connection before closing
# (if reply address is known)
connectionTimeout=180000

If the permanent nodes increase this value (it's in miliseconds) to half or one hour, 
then unused TCP 
connections doesn't die in three minutes. Messages will be passed through the 
established connections.
->this way Freenet is more static. Very active nodes will be always on the maximum 
value for maxConnections.
Perhaps more loads on permanent nodes.

But I think the load is higher, if the permanent node can't connect to the blocked 
transient node behind NAT!
(AFAIK a permanent node is useless behind a NAT, either with the increased 
connectionTimeout. Or am I wrong?)


What do you think?

Greetings,
Stef



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