[Help-gnunet] Re: restart for new IP?

[Christian Grothoff]

On Friday 03 May 2002 11:52 am, you wrote:
> I have a modem connection.
>
> If I have been running gnunetd and then my ISP hangs up, after I
> redial and get a new IP address do I need to restart gnunetd?  I
> assume so.

Currently, yes. It should be possible to have gnunetd detect the IP change 
and switch to the new IP automatically, but currently, this is not done.

>  Does it generally pickup where it left off OK?  Other than
> the fact that people will take a little while to learn my new host
> key.

Absolutely. You may want to set the 'time-to-live' for your address (it's not 
the hostkey that changes, just the binding of the hostkey to an IP) to a 
shorter value than the default.

Christian
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