On 2013/10/02 (Oct), at 7:27 AM, Stefan Hacker wrote: > Hi there, > I'm a new user in Freenet and very interested how the peers in opennet > choose their neighbors. I think I read in some of the papers on freenet > website that seed nodes send information of peers which locations are > not so far away to my own location.
Seed nodes help a new node get on the network (that is, a node that knows of *zero* other opennet participants). Once the node has been running a while, the seed nodes shouldn't really have an effect on peer selection (unless your network connection drops out); at this point peer selection is done by what is called "path folding" (a good search term). Basically, if a friend-of-a-friend (or deeper) finds data for you, there is a chance you will get a connection from the deal too. > But now I'm a bit wondering about > the fact that the diffrence between the peers I connected to and my own > is so big. In general, you should not be too concerned with the network locations of your peers, particularly for opennet. > So are there some other ways to connect to peers where the > locations diffrence is high? If I understand your question correctly.... I had a hack a while back that did this very thing, but I doubt it would still work and would write it totally different if done today, so... I would certainly not recommend it. :-) -- Robert Hailey _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
