On Wed, 03 Sep 2003, Gordan wrote: > On Wednesday 03 September 2003 18:21, Dan Merillat wrote: > > I would actually hope that provided the other private nodes are actually used > directly, they would start to accumulate data and fit themselves into their > own specialised areas. Once they all had a reasonably amount of data in them, > they would, hopefully, start cooperating and passing data without having to > go outside to fetch it.
Somewhat, yes. Not optimally. > > > About the only thing you really should do is patch the supernode to > > ALWAYS reset datasource so your internal addy's don't pollute the global > > namespace. > > I don't think that would happen anyway. From what I understand from Matthew's > previous post, private IP addresses get automatically ignored by default > anyway, unless an option in the config file is set. Yes, but if the gateway ALWAYS resets datasource, to the outside world it looks like a 'supernode' with all the data of all the internal nodes. Same with the inverse. Without that, you get 10.x noderefs polluting the table then get dropped, so any data stored on internal nodes goes to /dev/null. > > Stopping outward connections is not a problem, any half-decent firewall > solution can do that. Only if you turn off the internet. Random port->Random port. You can't block freenet without blocking everything but www. It depends on what kind of system you're running. Here, we have NAT to keep windows boxes from being directly on the internet, but there's no restrictions on what they can connect out to. > > Matthew: How can they keep their internal nodes from being "polluted" > > with external noderefs? > > Is that really necessary? Surely, the polution will not have any real effect > because the nodes will quickly learn that they cannot route to those nodes. > More to the point, the nodes other than the border node don't have to have a > default route out of the network, thus IP will RNF before things get any > further. Again, it's a waste because without a valid reference, data gets lost. > > ResetDS at the gateway should stop them from > > learning that way, but if one node picks up a reference to the outside > > world and contacts it you're going to start dragging references in. > > I don't know how Freenet handles such situations, but I would guess that > external node references would quickly end up being dropped from the routing > table. Indeed.
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