On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 09:45:09PM +1000, Emil Mikulic wrote: > Oskar: > > > > Reseeding is the absolutely worst thing to do if we want to know how the > > > > network actually emerges. > > > > If people keep doing it, we can just throw out the routing all > > together and go home. > > Is there any way to _prevent_ people from re-seeding?
We can't prevent people from doing anything, of course. Though not actively publishing seeding lists might just help. > I've been guilty of doing this in the past because nobody told me not to. I don't blame you. But the fact is that not only is reseeding bad, seeding at all is bad. The protocol already includes announcement and initial discovery algorithms, and all the simulations have shown that these give much better results then people randomly seeding. Ideally, all a node node should get is a single bootstrap reference. -- Oskar Sandberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
