Some questions about areas

John Goerzen
2021-08-17T05:20:39Z

Hello,

I'm working on a tool to use NNCP areas to facilitate syncing of
git repos. I'm pretty excited about this use case.

I have a few questions - perhaps the answers would also make good
additions to the documentation.

1) What is the interaction between "subs" and "via"? If I list a
node in subs and have a default via for it elsewhere in the
config, is that via used?

2) I'm a little unclear on the difference between having a machine
that lacks the keypair and one that lacks the area entirely. I
think it may have something to do with the answer to #1? Is it
that such a machine can only route packets in a traditional "via"
way? (That is, the originator of the packet [or some other
area-aware system] would have to do the routing to end nodes
directly?)

Thanks,

John