Re: [Gtk-gnutella-users] Re: Wrong IP Address

[Christian B. <chr...@gm...>]

Raphael Manfredi wrote:
> Quoting Tony Middleton <to...@xi...> from ml.softs.gtk-gnutella.users:
> :work and gtk-gnutella detects the correct external address.  Sometimes 
> :however it pick up a totally different address and as a result can't 
> :accept pushes.
 
> What kind of "wrong" IP address?  GTKG can only trust what other peers
> are reporting as your IP address.  If you run into malicious nodes that
> report a wrong IP address, there's little we can do to fix this.

If this happens more than seldom, you could apply the attached patch and
have a look at the log messages. Maybe there are a couple of buggy clients
or even hostile peers. I didn't get single log entry which means I wasn't
connected to any peer reporting a wrong IP address. I use basically the same
network infrastructure and this hasn't been a problem for me yet.

-- 
Christian