On Mon, 08 Oct 2001, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:05:09AM -0500, thelema wrote: > > Well, it seems to me that the best way to check if the node can connect > to a reference is to have the node attempt to connect to it. In practice > it may seem that just making the connection from the same machine covers > all the bases, but I don't like depending on the abribrary > characteristics of current networking protocols - it's better to do > stuff in a manner that is axiomatically certain. > I'd rather have the operation of the node-tester not impaired by the (lack of) operation of a currently running node, thank you.
> > If there's more information required to do the simple handshaking and > > authentication, I'd like to know so I can revise my position on this, > > but from what I see, there's no need to make it part of the node, so > > there's no need to bolt it on. > > At the moment nodes accept connections from anyone, so a test would not > really require using the actual nodes identity, but that may not always > be the case. > So there isn't any external data that this application would have to know to connect to another node. It'd be orders of magnitude easier to automate testing if the test was done by a program that could be run from the command line and not just exposed as a FCP interface. If whoever wants to write it as a FCP interface, I can deal with writing command-line support for it in liber2.pl, but I'd rather not have to. Thelema -- E-mail: thelema314 at bigfoot.com If you love something, set it free. GPG 1536g/B9C5D1F7 fpr:075A A3F7 F70B 1397 345D A67E 70AA 820B A806 F95D -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20011008/a69ebb78/attachment.pgp>
