On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 03:23:10AM -0400, Dan Merillat wrote: > 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.
But it will not be an effective Freenet node if it can't receive incominf connections. > > > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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