On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Jeffrey B. Siegal wrote: > Oskar Sandberg wrote: > > I don't think so, that is making things to complicated. People can learn for > > themselves what HTL works from their situation. > > Maybe. Mostly people are not able to understand things well enough to > do this, and we shouldn't require they be able to in order to use > freenet. The blinking 12 problem. > > If something is not done to promote locality, freenet will get banned > from universities (and some ISPs) just like Napster, cutting off a huge > user base. Doing something to improve locality probably requires HTL be > larger for users within large, fast localities. If this doesn't happen > automatically, people will find that Freenet just doesn't work well and > won't use it.
Actually, the university problem can be solved by so called shy nodes. A shy node would not use the DataSource to autodiscover the any new nodes, and nodes passing DataReplies from shy nodes would always reset DataSource to themselves. This provides a security behind which node operators can contribute to the future Freenet but limit their node to talk to trusted nodes (and not have it's address sent accross the network, where a snooping enemy might see it), but it also provides a way for nodes that wish to talk to Freenet only through one or a couple of "gateways" to do so for speed reasons. > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev -- Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
