----- Original Message ----- From: "Gianni Johansson" <[email protected]> To: <devl at freenetproject.org> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 7:09 PM Subject: Re: [freenet-devl] Private network addresses sneaking into routing?
> On Friday 29 June 2001 19:01, Bad wrote: > > >>>>> "GJ" == Gianni Johansson <giannijohansson at mediaone.net> writes: > > > I think the term you're looking for is "private network addresses." > > (e.g. 10.0.0.1 or 192.168.255.1). > Right. Thanks. > > ... > > > I don't think it's that big a deal. The address should eventually > > disappear from real nodes, since it's not resolvable. > I disagree. Truly ridiculous addresses shouldn't make it into the data store > (or whatever the 0.4 routing mechanism's analog is) in the first place. > > $ grep "tcp/192.168.1.100:15487" .freenet/store_19114 | wc > 13 13 364 > > Each one of these 13 entries may have displaced a real node reference that > could have improved my node's routing. What if somebody wants to run a private Freenet within their network? They'll probably need to use those private addresses. Make it a configuration parameter, such as "allowPrivateIP" (default = false), which when false, the node will nuke any referance to a private address. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
