>Directories like these were used back in the 0.3 days, and I thought >that announcements and distribution servlets were supposed to make these >obsolete?
Actually only one such directory was used, and there were about 6 directories that indexed KSKs. >Currently, one can get the distribution zip from a friendly node with >some known good references, install the node and have it announce itself > to the nodes listed in the seednodes.ref (from the distribution zip). The reality is that 99% of the people will not have a "friendly node" to get their references from. I've been using freenet since 0.2 and still have hard time getting friendly nodes sometimes. >Announcements draw traffic to the node, and the node learns more refs as >more and more nodes connect to it, integrating it to the network. It has >no single point of failure and scales well. Again, in reality 99% of the newly arrived nodes are placed in topological proximity to hawk or another famous seednodes file (such as CofE's). Over time of course nodes integrate in the network, but a gwebcache will accelerate the process and to the average user the difference between "few days" and "few hours" is enormous. And once again - this is a temporary solution that will help during times of rapid influx of new nodes. _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
