On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:38:02PM -0400, Edward J. Huff wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 13:01, Reskill wrote:
> 
> > I believe that without a clear definition between testing and stable
> > networks, recent occurrences regarding network degradation are bound
> > to happen again, sooner rather than later. Much better, then, to push
> > to a stable "clean slate" with the next well-tested stable build, and
> > always maintain this migration step with each significant new stable
> > release.
> > 
> > It is definitely time that new procedures were put into place to safeguard
> > network performance and the freenet userbase, especially if any truly
> > worthwhile content is to surface in our network.
> > 
> 
> I agree that better procedures are necessary.  However, you should
> note that right now, all anyone who wants to knock freenet down
> needs to do is get about 50 nodes well integrated and then switch
> them to 6025 or so, using a version that claims to be something
> else.
> 
> Having our developers and beta testers refrain from connecting
> to the live network is not going to remove the vulnerability
> which has just been exposed.  Rather, we have to fix fred so
> that it blacklists nodes which are behaving badly.  


Eh? We need to fix fred so it doesn't route to bad nodes. That's all.
And that's what routing is ALL ABOUT.

> 
> We will, I'm sure, refrain from testing this fix on the live 
> network, since right now, the test would knock down all nodes 
> not running the fixed version.
> 
> Also, I'm working on a version of Version.java which supports
> more flexible ways of excluding nodes which are polite enough
> to specify their true build number but which are not working.
> 
> -- Ed Huff
> 

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