Said thelema on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:31:07AM -0500, > In the meanwhile, people with dynamic IPs need to either use something > like dyndns.org so their reference stays up to date or they need to stay > transient and not share their reference. I guess we should only export > the reference if they're not transient.
Quite right. My thoughts are that this no longer applies to the J. Random Freeneter case. Registering with dyndns might be too much to ask of the masses. I think that what will likely happen is cable/dsl users making a seed.ref file, and that file being invalid after a few days go by and their IP changes. That's why I asked about re-generating seed.ref every time the node starts -- to increase the likelihood that it is valid over time. Also, with regards to a .5 release, FCP or node-generated seed.ref will accomplish the same task; but there would need to be an actual FCP-to-file-on-the-hard-disk implementation ready and bundled with the .5 software to be of any use. My final thoughts are that perhaps both should be done, the FCP version to facilitate future expansion and more elaborate clients. But in any case, a seed.ref file should definitely be generated at or near install time with a big glaring, "This is your seed.ref file! Give it to all of your friends" message, to help with that current problem. -- fingerprint: 740F B8D9 DF20 362C F5BC CDE6 6923 5A48 7657 541F lynx -source http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~jhs/public_key.gpg | gpg --import -------------- 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/20011009/a88ed964/attachment.pgp>
