Dynamic ip address support
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Is dynamic ip address support now enabled on 0.60?, if so how does it work? If my ip address changes how does siad keep track of me?
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Got it: v0.6.0 introduces some changes that are incompatible with previous versions. For example, host announcements now include a public key, and are signed with that key. This allows hosts to reannounce later with a different IP address.
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@chehands In my limited experience using different hostnames, there were some issues since the public key is still selected based on hostname. For the time being, I would try to not change hostname/IP too often.
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The groundwork for dynamic ip address support is now in place, especially from the hosting perspective. But the renter is still not tracking hosts by public key, it's still doing it by IP.
It will be a while until full dynamic ip support is in place, but we are working on it, and we have a pretty clear path to get from here to there.
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Thanks for the replies. So if I'm using an address from no.ip, will the renter track that address, and not the IP address?
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correct, if you use a hostname like 'example.com:9982', the renter will track the hostname, not the ip address.
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@Taek one thing I've noticed, when I use an address, it shows both the address and the IP address in the hostdb list, is this correct?
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It means that you announced twice. Ideally it would not do that, but until we start filtering by public key instead of IP address we'll continue to have that problem.
The 'sort host by public key' issue is high priority, as it's related to security.
