> > Why not use simple DNS? If freenet did use DNS in stead of IP numbers, > the people who'd like to run a node on a dynamic IP could get a > hostname/domain with dhs.org and probably elsewhere as well. > > Or is DNS a security risk? I cannot think of any way how, but that > means nothing. Yes, this is currently the best solution. I'd like to make it mandatory that dynamic IP nodes be transient, unless they have a dynamic DNS entry that can follow them. In that case its perfectly okay. We need to modify the server code to hold on to DNS names instead of converting to IPs, but it shouldn't be too difficult.
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