Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> writes: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:24:37PM +0100, Oskar Sandberg wrote: <SNIP> > > to see if I am being overly strict or missing cases I would be happy. A > > question is whether we should try to resolve DNS addresses to see if > > they are real. I'm somewhat concerned about revealing too much about the > > network if nodes immediately resolve addresses on announcements. How > > much can people see by a DNS query? Will they see my IP address, or only > > that there is a query from my ISPs DNS server?
> The other possibility is a temporary DNS error? Do we want to ignore > nodes just because they failed to resolve once? If a node can't resolve its own IP address, that node should go away. But I'm 100% for doing some background checking of nodes that have been pushed away (for whatever reason), and restoring nodes that are back up. This fixes the problem of temporary DNS errors clearing the RT. Thelema -- E-mail: thelema314 at bigfoot.com Raabu and Piisu GPG 1024D/36352AAB fpr:756D F615 B4F3 BFFC 02C7 84B7 D8D7 6ECE 3635 2AAB _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
