On Wed, 10/15/03 at 20:54:51 +0100, Toad wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:51:53PM -0500, Brandon Low wrote: > > 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? > > The node that can't be contacted directly would include in its reference > one or more nodes that it keeps a connection open to, which you can use > to send a message to it. Those nodes are known as shadow nodes because > of what Ian called them in his original proposal some time ago. > > Ooohhhh... I get it now! **slow**
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