On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 09:03:49PM -0500, Brandon wrote: > > I'm bringing this discussion over from support about how we can better > support people behind very restrictive firewalls. > > > A P2P system won't I know, but a P2P2P system would, where you connect > > what is effectively an HTTP tunnel out from behind a firewall to a host > > which will allow connections to other hosts - tunneling hosts included. > > So the components of this system are as follows: > Making nodes accept HTTP encapsulated connections
Most node operators won't be willing to give port 80 to Fred or to even open it up at all. > Making some nodes open connections to all known nodes on startup That doesn't seem very feasible w/ the current architecture. > Adding shadow node address resolution A shadowed node is useless to the network, so the person might as well just run a transient node or client. > Is anyone interested in working on any of these? Does this seem like a > worthwhile goal? Maybe something like triangle boy would work.. haven't really looked into that though. -- # tavin cole # # "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, # a continual flight from wonder." # - Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
