nntpchan/doc/peering.md

peering with other nodes

In order to actually be distributed, you need another person to sync posts with, otherwise what's the point right?

Right now peering information is private, there is no link level authenticatio (yet) so everything is done via either a vpn tunnel or a tor hidden service.

Peering via cjdns vpn tunnel

Set up cjdns, read more here

git clone https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns
cd cjdns && ./do
./cjdroute --genconf >> cjdroute.conf
./cjdroute < cjdroute.conf

Get your ipv6 address for cjdns

ip addr show tun0

Edit srnd.ini to bind nntp on that ipv6 address, make sure to use the square brances [ and ]

[nntp]
...
bind=[xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxx:xx....]:1199

say you have 2 friends at fc33:3:3::aadd and fc03:9f:123::a3df. right now feeds.ini can't take raw ipv6 addresses so add them to /etc/hosts

# add these lines to /etc/hosts
fc33:3:3::aadd     bob
fc03:9f:123::a3df  charlie

then add to feeds.ini the following:

[feed-bob]
proxy-type=none

[bob]
overchan.*=1
ctl=1

[feed-charlie]
proxy-type=none

[charlie]
overchan.*=1
ctl=1

then restart srndv2

TODO: firewalling