On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:30:44PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:26:17PM +0100, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > > and the widespread use of God aweful network > > flooding applications like "Frost" > > Ooh, that is a harsh way to treat Freenet's first real client > application. I like to think of Frost as a way to motivate us to harden > Freenet against DDOS attacks ;-) Of course, I will be much more > impressed by frost when they implement think-cash</flamebait> ;-)
It may be a beautiful square peg, but it's still going through a round hole. Maybe some day we'll figure out a distributed anonymous Usenet - but this ain't it. > > Beyond this lies the use of real load balancing in the protocol by > > having nodes weigh the probability of reseting the DataSource against > > their relative load on the network - but I think we can leave that for > > another day. > > Yeah, that sounds easily initially, but may not be. It would require > nodes to somehow decide whether they are above or below average, which > would require trusting information given by other nodes in the network, > a mechanism that could be exploited for an attack. Yes, ideally you want to have global knowledge of the traffic level of the network, but I don't think it is beyond hope that we could find a local estimate that works. Even something as simple as having a node attach it's traffic level to StoreData messages may be enough (I realize there are security issues). -- Oskar Sandberg oskar at freenetproject.org _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
