On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:25:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The caches as they are now are designed to store only the 20 most recent submissions, the number could be decreased to 5 for example. Also, they can run only in the few days after announcing a new release in order to help new nodes. After things stabilise, they can be shut down, assuming that we disable the cache annoucnement code in order to retain control over who runs them. If a new node can't connect to any of its bundled caches, it will just download the references from hawk as before.
You do realize that the biggest problem with a centralized or semi-centralized directory is that each Freenet node now has to contact it, which gives you a centralized place to watch for the creation of new Freenet nodes.
Directories like these were used back in the 0.3 days, and I thought that announcements and distribution servlets were supposed to make these obsolete?
Currently, one can get the distribution zip from a friendly node with some known good references, install the node and have it announce itself to the nodes listed in the seednodes.ref (from the distribution zip). Announcements draw traffic to the node, and the node learns more refs as more and more nodes connect to it, integrating it to the network. It has no single point of failure and scales well.
-- Mika Hirvonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://nightwatch.mine.nu/
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