Re: idea
Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]>
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On Friday 25 Feb 2011 19:53:49 folkert wrote: > > > > We did think about an "is the lan trusted?" option some time ago. This would both announce and open FCP and Fproxy. Unfortunately defining "the lan" is hard, when big untrusted NATed networks (e.g. ISPs in russia etc) often use private address space, and autodetecting it *reliably* is also hard. > > You could make it configurable. Default: do not trust. That was the whole idea. Unfortunately even detecting the LAN reliably isn't that easy. It's possible, of course, but you end up with lots of convoluted possibilities, and asking users questions that they probably don't know the answer to ... > > > You should however peer with the other computers on your LAN, if you know their operators, of course. Which hopefully you do if the LAN is trusted! > > Troublesome if everybody's on dhcp. Right, we would need to be able to bind to a range rather than an IP (pick any local interface in that range)... _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:support-request-RdDMkVZAZeuJnvDnx1genB2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org?subject=unsubscribe
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