On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 09:27:07PM +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > As I said above, it is technically possible to run it behind a firewall
> 
> ok so I have put an automatic update of dns name in my internal Dns server which 
> point to my external IP (externalIP.server.network) and put it in the freenet.ini.

It needs to be valid from the OUTSIDE as well.
Just get a dyndns account, unless you want to maintain a real DNS
server.

> I wish freenet is able to do a simple nslookup for retrieve the external IP now ? It 
> seems to work but there is so much error in the log that I wonder if it's really a 
> stable version I have.
> 
> Most users use dyndns so if tomorrow dyndns stop his service so we can say 50% of 
> the freenet network will be dead ? You talk about a decentralized network so if each 
> people use the same dns servers it means centralized network.

Yeah, I know. That's why we need to have on-network detection. But it's
not quite coded yet.
> 
> Freenet is slow (slow as a wounded rabbit ?), more slow than the time I had an 
> internet connection with a 28.8k modem. I am thinking to some people who can't have 
> a DSL or Cable connection, they can really use freenet ?!

Partly because your node isn't working well. Partly because it's a new
node (they learn from experience).
> 
> 
> > with only outgoing connections. But it will not run very well in that
> > case - certainly it will take more time for it to "find its feet".
> > 
> > > Lot of constraint for trying to make a free network with everyone.
> > > 
> > > I am force to make a little program who will modify the freenet.ini for changing 
> > > the IP and unloading and reloading Freenet? I wonder why so basic things are not 
> > > implement in Freenet.
> > 
> > How do we find it? How do you find it? You ask an external server,
> > right? We have no central server so we would have to ask other nodes,
> > and because we can't necessarily trust them, we'd have to verify that
> > several nodes give the same address. We haven't got around to
> > implementing this yet.
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.

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