* Robert Hailey <rob...@freenetproject.org> [2009-05-15 13:04:58]: > > On May 15, 2009, at 11:57 AM, xor wrote: > > > On Friday 15 May 2009 18:37:12 Thomas Sachau wrote: > >> xor schrieb: > >>> On Thursday 14 May 2009 19:35:07 Thomas Sachau wrote: > >>>> Matthew Toseland schrieb: > >>>>> My observation: Can we get rid of the "I will configure it > >>>>> manually" > >>>>> choice? And maybe the welcome page? (#3094) > >>>> > >>>> You want to force everyone to use the Wizard? > >>>> > >>>>> Because we were both on the same LAN, it did not connect, until > >>>>> I told > >>>>> him to set it to allow local addresses on that peer. There > >>>>> should be a > >>>>> checkbox when adding a noderef, defaulting to on, "Friend may be > >>>>> on the > >>>>> same local network as me" or something. (#3098) > >>>> > >>>> This is imho not usual, so i would set this to very low priority > >>>> and > >>>> only for advanced mode enabled. > >>> > >>> IMHO the current behavior is a "bug" though: We have the MDNS > >>> plugin, > >>> which is installed by default and should automatically (opennet-) > >>> connect > >>> nodes on a LAN. However it does not work because LAN connections are > >>> disallowed by default. > >> > >> Afaik that plugin is no longer installed by default. > > > > Why not? I like the idea of self-organizing Freenet on LANs very > > much :) > > > > Especially if you consider large public or private LANs where two > > people > > running Freenet might not even know each others, so they couldn't > > get manually > > connected. > > > > Hmmm... but does a node want to advertise that we are running freenet? > Maybe dependent on the security level setting. > > In either case, a small network would have major issues if it was not > also connected to the large network,
Ever heard of darknet? > and so I think still that > automatically detecting locality based on external ip address would > help (e.g. a node could preferentially keep any opennet peers that it > finds as being local). > That's what darknet connections are about. Opennet nodes connecting to the same darknet nodes is a BUG which has already been reported and has a ticket on mantis.
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