Even so, it shouldn't be done. The Right Way(tm) to do it is to make Freenet itself a little more mallible to the needs of unstable nodes (the ARKs in 0.4 are a step twards this). Forcing your node to use a only a few other nodes is a really bad idea.
-----Original Message----- From: Emil Mikulic <[email protected]> To: devl at freenetproject.org <devl at freenetproject.org> Date: Thursday, June 07, 2001 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [freenet-devl] nodes.config > > >> >Would it be a good idea to be able to dynamically make the local >> >node connect to specified outside nodes? >> > >> >nodes.config just isn't doing it for me. >> >> No. The way Freenet works, it is SUPPOSED to find out nodes that you would >> otherwise have no clue existed. Makeing this process more static goes >> against the whole point Freenet. > >Except that most of the time I find stable-ish nodes which DO exist >and I have no way of making my node hook up with them. > >Being able to force nodes could also be a plausible workaround for >the dwindling store refs problem that crops up (I had it happen >yesterday so I deleted nodes.config and restarted the node and >it got a little better) > > -- Emil > > > >_______________________________________________ >Devl mailing list >Devl at freenetproject.org >http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl > > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
