> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Tomlinson > Sent: den 9 juli 2003 12:15 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tom Kaitchuck > Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Firewalled mode? > > > On July 8, 2003 09:29 pm, Tom Kaitchuck wrote: > > Now that NIO is implemented, could we have a 'Firewall > mode', where a > > node does not advertise itself like a transient node. > Instead it makes > > lots of outgoing connections that it mantains open. This way nodes > > that it connects to can still make requests from it, and it > is useful > > to the network, even though it is behind a firewall. Or would this > > require multiplexing to be implemented too? > > From comments from zab on irc, think that a connection can be > used period. > It no longer matters if its inbound or outbound. Think > this should be possible > now and should not be too difficult to implement. We could > just open a connection > when a new node is added to the routing table. This might > even have some pluses > on non firewalled nodes... > > Is it really this simple? > > Ed Tomlinson
No, this doesn't work. What is really needed for this to work is that whenever your node is added to *another* nodes routingTable your node should open a connection to that node. How would that request propagate to your node? /N _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
