On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 05:08:36PM -0600, Edgar Friendly wrote: <> > I wouldn't try and resolve DNS addresses at each hop along the > announcement path, but we can both cut down on invalid/bad > announcements and allow for immediate feedback about whether a node > can be contacted by others in the network. If the first node that > recieves an announcement tries to contact the announcing node before > passing on the reference, it would be able to stop the announcement in > its tracks for invalid announcements, and even reply that the node > wasn't able to be contacted, and there's some problem with a firewll > or something like that.
There isn't really a big difference between making the first node do the check, and making the zero-th node do it (that is the announcee itself). -- Oskar Sandberg oskar at freenetproject.org _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
