Ian Clarke <ian at freenetproject.org> writes: > I think we should get rid of the transient setting, the reason > being that it is relatively straightforward for a node to guess > whether it is likely to be transient or not. > > I would suggest that all nodes remain in "transient" mode > automatically until 6 hours after they come on-line. Nodes could > also keep track of what percentage of the day they are online > for, and switch back to transient if it is less than a certain > percentage (say 80%). > 6 hours is a long time. I like the 80% idea though, even if we can't be very exact.
> This gets rid of the ugly manual transient setting. > > By a similar token, we should investigate whether the FNP > protocol can be enhanced to support a "tell me my IP address" > message, so that we have a reliable way to automatically > determine a nodes IP address. > > Ian. > Instead of a seperate request for a node's IP, I think it's quite reasonable for this to be built into the node announcement protocol, where the node you're announcing to tells you the IP it sees you coming from as well as whether the port you say you're running on is contactable on that IP (taking care of detecting firewalls). Thelema -- E-mail: thelema314 at swbell.net 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
