constant IP adress across all network.

[b8kings0ga]

Noob here, I'm thinking of a way to createa p2p network but each instance will have a unique routeble IP, can't use DNS since the requirement using ip to route, are there any way I can get around it while using awl?

[pymq]

@b8kings0ga Hi,

If you orchestrate it from a single script or something, you can modify config file and list each peer and IP address that you want. But in order to modify config you need to first stop the server and do it manually, unfortunately.

If this approach is good enough, I can implement an HTTP API/CLI to allow to modify it without restarting the server and more scriptable.

But in the big picture I was thinking about having a "group" of peers that can easily have the same set of peers (to allow to connect to each other) and to have a feature to easily add a peer to this group from any peer of the group

[b8kings0ga]

If this approach is good enough, I can implement an HTTP API/CLI to allow to modify it without restarting the server and more scriptable.

That definitely helps a lot! I was also thinking about adding a flag like --ip to specify the IP when making connection requests.

But in the big picture I was thinking about having a “group” of peers that can easily have the same set of peers (to allow to connect to each other) and to have a feature to easily add a peer to this group from any peer of the group

It sounds like scalability might be a challenge here? For that, I was considering an agent that can “gossip” the new peer information to other known peers with some kind of "auto upgrade" method based on number of peers to solve scalability issue in some way

[pymq]

That definitely helps a lot! I was also thinking about adding a flag like --ip to specify the IP when making connection requests.

Created new issue for this #165

It sounds like scalability might be a challenge here?

Yeah, probably. But for small networks with fewer than a few hundred peers, it should be fine, I think. Anywherelan is still such an unpopular piece of software to think about this kind of things :)

[b8kings0ga]

Nah, it’s definitely gonna trend — when I typed my idea into ChatGPT, Anywherelan was the only thing that came up. Really great software you made!