Re: [Mldonkey-users] Open to paches for a more complete overnet support ?

[Norbert LATAILLE]

> > There is one point which still bother me in the current implementation :
> > the ability for a user to choose his MD4 peer address. As overnet is
> > "stateless" (important information, like routing tables and hash tables
> > are volatile and replicated between neighbours), there is no use being
> > able to restart with the same MD4 address. This is one big weakness of
> > the overnet protocol, and leaving this parameter could only lead some
> > malicous mldonkey users to choose their address (an for example being
> > responsible for the "DIVX" search).
> 
> Even in the official client, the client MD4 is not well hidden in the
> pref.met file, I've seen some 31337000000000000000000000000000 client md4s a
> looooong time ago ;)


So did I. But right now the official overnet client I'm using does not 
keep this pref.met, and is thus changing MD4 address each time it is
launched (which is I think the correct way to do). However I must admit
that I did not work too long to make it store this config file.

N.