Hi, Roy M. Silvernail (roy@rant-central.com) wrote on 2003-11-03:
In looking over the Freenet FAQ (specifically the Firewall/NAT stuff), it looks like a static public IP address is assumed/needed. My DSL connection is DHCP, so my visible IP changes periodically. Even more fun, the visible IP isn't visible from my side. (I get a 10.x.x.x address from my DSL modem) I can do some sneaky stuff to recover the visible IP, but can Freenet work under these conditions?
It Depends[tm]. All you really need is one TCP listen socket - if you can't receive incoming TCP connections, you can only participate as a transient node and retrieve content, but you're not really useful to the network as it is. Using a DynDNS host name for the ipAddress setting is pretty common on Freenet, so that shouldn't be a problem.