On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Ian Haywood wrote: > I've checked the archives for something similar, can't find anything, so > here goes. >
I think I asked something about this on chat a few days back. But that's not relevant now. > One of the problems with dial-up nodes is their dynamic addresses, so > references to them become invalid. I propose that every time a dial-up > node logs on, it inserts a "fake" document into the network, its key is > the average of all the keys stored on the node. It contains no data, just > identifing the transient nodes as it source. Then searches on keys close > to this average key (thus close to documents in the tranisent node) will > be referred to that node. > > The fake document would be inserted in the normal manner, so into nodes > likely to recieve close search requests. > > The fake document could be provided with an expiry time (say six hours) > after which it would be deleted, so nodes aren't clogged with fake > references. Why not use simple DNS? If freenet did use DNS in stead of IP numbers, the people who'd like to run a node on a dynamic IP could get a hostname/domain with dhs.org and probably elsewhere as well. Or is DNS a security risk? I cannot think of any way how, but that means nothing. -- Marc Schneiders ------- Venster - http://www.venster.nl marc at venster.nl - marc at bijt.net - marc at schneiders.org _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
