Re: [Tech] Re: [freenet-dev] Google Summer of Code

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Author: Thomas King
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Hi all,

On Friday 21 April 2006 22:43, Michael Rogers wrote:
> Thomas King wrote:
> > - Adding STUN-support (RFC 3489) to Freenet to automatically collect NAT
> > related information. These information will be used to automatically
> > configure Freenet.
>
> Doesn't STUN require the client to contact a server in order to learn
> its IP address? If so it might conflict with one of the goals of the
> darknet approach, which is to prevent a single person or small number of
> people from being able to harvest a list of Freenet nodes.

yes, you are right. STUN requires the client to contact a STUN server to be
able to learn its "official" ip address. However, a lot of tools use STUN so
you cannot determine if a freenet client connects to a STUN server or a VoIP
application.
Additionally, I could add a switch to the config file to en-/disable the
STUN-support depending on the user's preference.

Greetings,
Thomas