On Tue, 02 May 2000, Jeffrey B. Siegal wrote: > Ian Clarke wrote: > > Secondly, while I know people are reluctant to encourage people not to > > run their own nodes, it would be cool in the short term if the node-list > > in the Advanced->Server List dialog could be tested for "ping-time" > > (probably by doing a handshake with them), and sorted accordingly. This > > would make things easier for those incapable of running a local node (we > > could add a note to that page that people really should run a local > > node). > > Maybe it would be useful if the node used such a list to choose one of > its peers. That would provide a weak form of geographic closeness.
It obviously can't base choice on which is closest, but it could possibly weigh it into the choice. The question is how much, if at all, one can weigh netwise closeness (really just transfer speed) to another node without hurting the "Freenet effect" that we depend on. I can't say. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
