Right, so it lets us expose all the work we have to do anyway on NAT evasion and dyndns to the user. Good.
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 06:47:26PM -0400, Colin Davis wrote: > Another user-case- > > I run Freenet on both my laptop, and my Home machine. My home machine > is double-natted, on a VERY dynamic IP address- It's on a assigned > 192.* address, that's forwarding to a 10.0.* address, that's > forwarding to a Dynamic IP Verizon DSL address. > > > I run Terminal Services server on my Desktop (Like VNC), so I can log > into it from anywhere, to see how websites look in Windows. > I've run DynDns before, but lately, I find it simplier to fire up > Freenet on my laptop, and let it connect, and fetch the ARK for my > desktop. > I then copy and paste the IP address from there, to my Terminal > Services client. > > > But even through all this, I still need to set up port forwarding > through multiple NATs- And it only works for the ports I've > specifically set up. > If Freenet had Hamachi-style functionality, I could use that to > connect to Terminal Services on my desktop. I could also use it to > connect to the SSH server on my desktop, and to play a multiplayer > game against my girlfriend, who is sitting at the desktop. > > It lets me utilize that machine as if I were plugged into it > directly, without exposing that machine to strangers, via a DMZ. > > > That's VERY useful, and definitely establishing manual darknet > connections for, even if Opennet existed. > > > -Colin > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20060701/b3e18808/attachment.pgp>
