Brandon schrieb: > > > MSN and AOL running a freenet 'portal' is a thought too horriffic to > > contemplate. I imagine we need some sort of distributed database of > > initial nodes for new nodes to connect to. The hosts involved in this > > database could be hard-coded into the node. Don't give the user the > > option of entering 'freenet.spawn-of-satan-corporation.com'. > > You should connect to nodes you personally know about, run by people you > trust. If you don't have that option, then there should be several avenues > with which to discover them: irc bots, usenet group, e-mail bot, web > sites, and of course through Freenet itself. We've been talking about > adding a "give me a list of nodes you know about". We could set up some > nodes that reject most traffic, must respond to such messages. This would > be like the Gnutella host caches (gnet.ath.cx, etc.). It's also a lot like > inform.php except that ANY node can perform this function and the client > authors just include a list of nodes that they trust (since you have to > trust the client authors somewhat if you're going to use their clients). > So it's not centralized, but it's not really decentralized the way we like > things to be, but I think it's the closest we can get for this particular > problem. > > Oh yeah, and an MSN Freenet node would be very good. Lots of space and > bandwidth. As long as only other untrusted nodes talk to it, you're not > really harming anything. I mean, I wouldn't set *my* node up to talk to > it, but I would be fine with Uprizer setting its node to talk to it and > then setting my node to talk to Uprizer.
i not talked 'bout you or anyone in this list but 'bout the average windows user. when the clients always spawn nodes, it won't do harm if they all start with freenet.MSN.com. -- God is real, unless declared integer. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
