On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:35:38PM -0600, Mark J Roberts wrote: > Matthew Toseland: > > Further option, complements of GJ: > > Kill all the DNS code, except that if ipAddress is set to a DNS address, > > the node looks it up by calling out to nslookup or host every minute or > > so. The IP addresses that go out onto the network would not include DNS, > > and only nodes behind firewalls with dynamic IPs on the other side would > > need to use this semi-platform-specific hack. > > While this would work, it only helps a small minority of users who > already have dynamic DNS for other purposes, and it doesn't seem to > have any advantage over doing it the protocol way.
Okay, see my above email. Fix is rather less urgent now that the immediate problem is solved. Doing it the protocol way would only help the minority of users who are behind NATs, but CAN set up a port forward and CAN'T set up a dyndns client. Associated changes would also let the network throw out firewalled non-NAT nodes that can't accept connections more easily. It's not a big gain in any case and not worth the work, certainly not until we can make better use of nodes that can't be directly connected to. -- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at http://80-192-4-23.cable.ubr09.na.blueyonder.co.uk:8889/SPmjEh6sH3Y/ ICTHUS.
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