On Wed, 10/15/03 at 20:45:42 +0100, Toad wrote: > > > > -Allow firewalled nodes to be fully functional parts of the network > > > > just without ARK insertion. This will give us some of the scalability > > > > advantages of Gnutella's Ultrapeer technique > > > You mean shadow nodes? Maybe. I'd rather just set a flag on the > > > reference and have the node it connects to not forward the reference. > > That's basically the same thing functionally bunches easier to impliment > > I guess. > > No. If you want a node to talk to you, you'd need to tell the network to > send a message to it saying you want a connection. That's something we > don't have a system for at the moment. And it's not as easy as it sounds > if we want it to be fast and to scale. Including one or more shadow > nodes that we keep connections to in our node reference as given out to > the rest of the world is one way to solve this problem. > > So we'd pass around shadow nodes as part of our node ref so that the rest of the network would just always try to contact them through a 'Illuminated' node?
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