gpg: Signature made Mon Apr 24 20:45:22 2006 UTC using DSA key ID 6554A22D
gpg: Good signature from "Matthew John Toseland (Toad) <toad@amphibian.dyndns.org>"
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:39:28PM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote:
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> Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > Oh one other thing: It would be really nice if we could connect directly
> > to nodes on the same LAN (or PC!). The main issue here is determining
> > whether we ARE on the same LAN; we can find our LAN address very easily.
>
> Is there any harm in just sending a handshake packet to the peer's LAN
> address, and trying the external address if there's no response from the
> LAN address? Initially this seems like a security risk because it could
> reveal that you're running a node, but in fact an eavesdropper on your
> LAN can see all packets regardless of whether they're addressed to local
> or remote peers, so I'm not sure any extra information is revealed.
Not true with UTP-based networks.
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> Cheers,
> Michael
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