On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 08:28:58PM +0200, BlueStar88 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there is an important need to bind the external port to a specific 
> IP-address, for some anonymity reasons:
> 
> I have some virtual IP-adresses without reverse mapping i'd like to use 
> freenet with.

I think you will find that one IP address is almost as traceable as any
other IP address...

> Currently the node uses *all* IP-adresses for outgoing connections! The 
> problem is not solvable using the firewall, because the different ports 
> it uses on every connection - and it would not be the nicest way anyway. 

One firewall-based solution would be the user match support in linux's
firewalling tools... if you are running the firewall on a separate
machine you'd have to label the packets on the one running the node,
after recognizing them from the user match module...

> So my node identity is easily revealed by a reverse lookup of my main ip 
> address on some connections. Like this i cannot use freenet without 
> presenting my street address to everyone! I cannot deal with that.

You just admitted to running freenet on a public mailing list! :)
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions!!!
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.

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