On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 01:45:26PM -0500, David Sowder (Zothar) wrote:
> It seems to me that a node could benefit from knowing that it doesn't 
> need to do outgoing hole punching.
> 
> Some possible benefits:
> 
> - The node wouldn't need to send handshakes to disconnected nodes nearly 
> as often for nodes we haven't heard from in some time period

As long as it knows the other end also is not firewalled.

> - The node wouldn't need to do ARK requests nearly as often for nodes we 
> haven't heard from in a while either

Their IP address may have changed; ours may have changed.

> - Reduces output bandwidth demand, thus freeing it for other traffic
> - This could help https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=316 some 
> at least

I'm not convinced it's a problem.
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