gpg: Signature made Fri Jun 30 23:30:59 2006 UTC using DSA key ID 5CB076E4
gpg: Good signature from "Matthew John Toseland <toad@amphibian.dyndns.org>"
Right, so it lets us expose all the work we have to do anyway on NAT
evasion and dyndns to the user. Good.
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 06:47:26PM -0400, Colin Davis wrote:
> Another user-case-
>
> I run Freenet on both my laptop, and my Home machine. My home machine
> is double-natted, on a VERY dynamic IP address- It's on a assigned
> 192.* address, that's forwarding to a 10.0.* address, that's
> forwarding to a Dynamic IP Verizon DSL address.
>
>
> I run Terminal Services server on my Desktop (Like VNC), so I can log
> into it from anywhere, to see how websites look in Windows.
> I've run DynDns before, but lately, I find it simplier to fire up
> Freenet on my laptop, and let it connect, and fetch the ARK for my
> desktop.
> I then copy and paste the IP address from there, to my Terminal
> Services client.
>
>
> But even through all this, I still need to set up port forwarding
> through multiple NATs- And it only works for the ports I've
> specifically set up.
> If Freenet had Hamachi-style functionality, I could use that to
> connect to Terminal Services on my desktop. I could also use it to
> connect to the SSH server on my desktop, and to play a multiplayer
> game against my girlfriend, who is sitting at the desktop.
>
> It lets me utilize that machine as if I were plugged into it
> directly, without exposing that machine to strangers, via a DMZ.
>
>
> That's VERY useful, and definitely establishing manual darknet
> connections for, even if Opennet existed.
>
>
> -Colin
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