On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 02:33:17PM +0100, Tobias Heider wrote:
> Peer can not be "any" in an active policy, somehow the initiator must know
> where to send the messages. In this case the default currently is what I've
> described before: the IP of peer.
But in `passive' policies which is the default unless `active' is
specified explicitly;  the manual already makes use of `peer any' in the
EXAMPLES section.

> In a passive policy the key is only needed when
> the peer's ID has been exchanged in the IKE_AUTH message,
> so (I think) the default is to use whatever ID was received.
That does not match the manual wording, then.

> I think this works pretty well in 90% of the cases and I've always been a
> fan of a short default configuration, so i don't think requiring to
> set dstid is a good idea.
> 
> We should rather fix the defaults to do what we expect them to do.
> In your example case that would be using fqdn/D.example.com
Agreed;  do you take a stab at it?  I'm happy to test.

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