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Matthew Toseland wrote:
> You can? If you don't answer their requests, then your node will be
> backed off. If your node is always backed off then there's something
> wrong. Arguably this is detectable; if a node is backed off more than a
> certain percentage of the time, we can flag it up to the user.

Detecting peers that are always backed off is a good idea but I'm not
sure it solves the free riding problem. What if you send fake replies?
"Sure, I inserted that file" ... "Sorry, I looked really hard for that
file but I couldn't find it"

You can detect peers that never find data, but is it possible to detect
peers that never forward inserts?

Cheers,
Michael


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