For the purposes of testing, and regarding the thoughts in my last e-
mail, I've set up two freenet nodes which are public- Anyone can add
their reference to them, without interaction by me.
Note- This is entirely different from the link exchange idea that I
proposed in my last e-mail. I still prefer that solution, but that's
not something I'm up to implementing.
I set up my node by commenting out the ability to run any toadlets
outside of the Darknet, and by disabling the ability for fproxy to
delete nodes. I then put node on a publicly accessible IP, and told
it to allow connections to anyone.
This should allow people to connect, copy my noderef, and add their own.
I'd love it if a few people could try connecting, and letting me know
how it works for them.
http://Ubernode.org
Going to the site tells you my noderef, and allows you to add your
own, without having to go through the Java server directly. By
running through a quick apache page, I am able to spare the little
server a small amount of pain.
This is running on a small rented server, but should be an
interesting experience to test. If nothing else, if it works at all,
it can give Slashdotters at least /one/ node to connect to, slow
though it will be. You can test to see if your node is added, by
viewing the list of connections at (http://ubernode.org:8888/
darknet/) but that page is running through fproxy, so it slow.
I've set another test/example up on my home connection (http://
akari.homeunix.org:8888/darknet/), but that connection is going to be
far less stable, and it connects to the node directly, rather than
going through a load-saving page, so will be slow as hell. Really.
Use Ubernode.org instead.
While I don't necessarily think public access nodes are a great
solution for anything long-term, the ability for people to have a few
places they can connect without user-interaction has to be better
than the ref-swarms in IRC...
It's an interesting thought-experiment for me, if nothing else.
Just my ignorant thoughts.
-Colin
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