(Moved to -chat) On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 11:21:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yea, but you don't know all the nodes in the network, you just know > the ones your connected to.
Right. > So if one of those links between the > networks goes down, half your downloads stall out and die. If you have two large networks connected by only two links, yes, you have a problem. > And wouldn't that put a pretty big strain on certain computers? I mean, > if you get this global network of small networks...90% of the data you > request will probably be on another 'network'. Freenet 0.7/Dark isn't designed for a "global network of small networks". It's designed for one huge friend-to-friend network. My friends are not the same as my friend's friends, although there is usually some overlap. What Freenet 0.7 is *not* is a way to connect small WASTE-style cells of 20 people who all know, trust, and directly connect to, each other, together. > The number of > connections between these networks is going to be a lot smaller than > connections within the network. If we get big barriers within a network then we will need to deal with this by making the routing algorithm smart enough to recognize distinct sub-networks. But the sub-networks do not have to be tiny; I'd expect, for example, a number of chinese darknets which eventually unify, with a relatively small number of connections to various western darknets, which in turn may connect to the opennet if there is one. Queries should probably be run within the chinese darknet before passing them on to the western darknet, if only for speed's sake, but we would still have a global structure. > Therefore the computers that connect > between them are gonna have a much greater strain on them than the > ones that are only linked to one 'network'. And if these individual > networks fully connect and integrate...you have an opennet. No, you have a darknet. An opennet is when you connect to total strangers. A darknet is when you connect to your friends. If some of your friends live in other countries, so much the better. > Except you > have to physically get your node connections from someone else. So you > have an opennet with much fewer connections, which doesn't seem like a > good thing. No idea what you are talking about. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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