On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:21:55AM +1000, fish wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 04:01:04PM +0100, Toad wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:12:11PM +1000, fish wrote: > > > Hrm, how would this effect uses who are stuck behind NAT's that they are > > > not in a position to work around (and hence a node can never open a connection > > > to)? > > > > They would not be able to make queries. Their network topology forces > > them to be freeloaders, and we should treat them as such. Or so the > > argument goes. > > As one of the users who is stuck in this situation, I'm sure everyone > understands why I view that argument with a small amount of hostility, > right? > > [hostile statement removed upon reconsideration. To sum it up in a > non-hostile fashion, while I understand that drastic measures may be > nessesary to fix the routing issues that freenet is currently experiencing, > do you seriously believe that throwing off everyone with shitty connectivity > is the solution? I'll accept it if this is seriously believed, right, but > i'm sure everyone understands that I don't really wish to be thrown off > freenet, despite the voices in my head sometimes telling me otherwise :-p] > > -- jj
I don't know. I do know that one powerful attack on Freenet would be to distribute the One True Killer App (after Freenet has gotten reasonably fast, reliable etc), with a built in but purely transient node. If it got popular freenet would quickly disappear under what amounted to a massive DDoS. I believe it is possible to circumvent firewalls that only allow outbound connections, as I have explained elsewhere. It's a question of what priority do we give to it at this stage? Also, we can't do it before multiplexing anyway for various reasons. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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