On Thursday 02 December 2010 23:28:21 Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > One useful measurement for that would be obtaining a "IP => Country" map
> 
> Care to find one?
> 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/javainetlocator/

Have not read its source code


> > and
> > displaying a country flag next to each peer, then even
> > non-Freenet-engineers could figure out whether their node is well
> > connected.
> 
> I don't see what you mean by well-connected here.

Well connected = your peers are from your country or near your country, not 
from the other side of the world

> > Further, I propose an additional and easier to implement improvement
> > against this attack: Provide a configuration option "Do not connect to
> > strangers from my country" which prevents Opennet connections to peers
> > from the same country...
> > - Attackers are very likely to be from the same country, both federal and
> > commercial ones.
> 
> Interesting possibility, similar to some other networks. I'd be a bit
> worried about impact on routing - given the small performance bias in
> opennet, isn't it possible that the nearby peers location-wise are all in
> your country?

We might first implement the country-display of peers to see what the situation 
is now ....
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