On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:08:22PM -0700, Mr.Bad wrote:
> >>>>> "OS" == Oskar Sandberg <oskar at freenetproject.org> writes:
> 
>     OS> I wasn't even aware that the clients read the freenetrc
>     OS> file. If somebody added this, they should probably not have
>     OS> made it read nodeAddress as the address to the node.
> 
> Yes, the clients read the freenetrc file (or, rather, get Params
> passed to them at launch time) as of 0.3.8. The idea was to reduce the
> number of files that a node + services needs to keep in synch. Having
> listenPort set once, and then each service (3 at current count) also
> have to have a serverAddress parameter seemed kind of ludicrous.
> 
> Currently the service launcher will give the nodeAddress if provided,
> or "tcp/localhost:[listenPort]" if not. If the service has a
> serverAddress set, like this:
<>

I can see why this would seem natural, but since the nodeAddress is not
the actual address to the node it is not a good idea. Perhaps I should
have named the field better.

If you want a field in .freenetrc that tells clients to look for a node
somewhere other than localhost, that field must be seperate from the
current interpretation of nodeAddress.

-- 
'DeCSS would be fine. Where is it?'
'Here,' Montag touched his head.
'Ah,' Granger smiled and nodded.

Oskar Sandberg
md98-osa at nada.kth.se

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