Yeh this was suggested months and months and months ago and as far as I can tell never got implemented. Required some 'big' changes to something 'important' or words to that effect. So until it is, it's got to be manual I'm afraid.
Using UDP would obviate the need for punching firewalls, but there's no immediate plan to move to UDP as transport any time soon. uPnP is a good idea in principle but a lot of security departments turn it off for obvious reasons. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Salah Coronya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of development issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 1:06 PM Subject: [freenet-dev] Automatic IP Address configuration > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Currently, those of use whom are NAT'ed have to configure ipAddress > manually. If ones IP isn't very sticky (and/or is not using dynamic > DNS), it can be a pain to keep changing it. So I have a simple solution: > Why not just ask the node were connecting to what our IP address is? If > we do this every time we connect to a node, it'll also sense IP address > changes (since all of our connection will drop when IP address changes). > > Its not perfect, but it would work 99% of the time (it might fail, for > example, if we're behind some kind of load balancer that uses different > outbound IP, for example.) In the event we get different IP address from > various nodes, easier solution is to make our IP address the one we see > the most of. One will still need to punch a hole in their NAT to be > permanent, of course (short of uPnP, zeroconf, etc). > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQE/tNLNhctESbvQ8ZwRAu23AJ9uDzFx2VQMyHiSXeBHTEfo5f5URwCfUFM4 > /6aMW3Ii+FIMYPVg9qU6myU= > =lpFq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
