It would be flooded and it would either be ineffective or it would contain far too many nodes.
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 03:06:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wow, that's not a bad idea. It seems like it would start exactly the sort of > web Freenet would run on best. You'd get someones node refs, then the next > day you'd get even farther through the network. Also, through the act of > retrieving the node refs, you'd propagate them, solidifying the network as > well. You'd end up with nodes that might specialize in that sort of content? > Or would the hashes cause it not to specialize? We have plenty of traffic already if you hadn't noticed. > > Anyways, it seems like once you have 1 node ref that works, you'd quickly get > access to the rest of the network. Maybe starting nodes would retrieve refs > more often, say every few minutes, thus integrating everyone very quickly. This is purely about bootstrapping. People do not need fifty nodes to bootstrap from. > > I really like the idea, jrandom! -- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at http://80-192-4-36.cable.ubr09.na.blueyonder.co.uk:8889/NZtBAIGOWnU/ ICTHUS.
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