Re: [freenet-support] couple of questions

2011-02-18 Thread folkert
Odd: I always get a password error. There is a known bug[0] that makes it impossible to login with a username containing a -, even though accounts can be created with those names. Aah ok, that indeed is then the issue. That was one of the issues. The other was an incorrect hostname

Re: [freenet-support] couple of questions

2011-02-18 Thread Dennis Nezic
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:34:46 +0100, folkert wrote: Odd: I always get a password error. There is a known bug[0] that makes it impossible to login with a username containing a -, even though accounts can be created with those names. Aah ok, that indeed is then the issue.

Re: [freenet-support] idea

2011-02-18 Thread Dennis Nezic
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:01:10 +0100, folkert wrote: What about that the freenet daemon periodically (configurable/disable-ble of course) announces itself on the lan(s) to which it is connected? That way freenet-nodes can interconnect and speed up distribution of data. Data distribution on

Re: [freenet-support] idea

2011-02-18 Thread folkert
True, but it can be used to find a way to other nodes further down the path. This way one doesn't need to connect to the central seednodes to find ways to reach the global network/the rest of the freenet network. Ah, for initial connection to Freenet that might be useful, although I

Re: [freenet-support] idea

2011-02-18 Thread folkert
Normal people (your neighbour so to say) start to know these things like FreeNet/Tor. This week there was an item on national television in the Netherlands about how Tor helps oppressed people to get their opinions/news items/etc. out! Oh it was also a rather positive news item.

Re: [freenet-support] idea

2011-02-18 Thread Dennis Nezic
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:35:00 +0100, folkert wrote: Well I was thinking maybe in the future we're all using mesh networking over wifi (or whatever wireless protocol we then have). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking Freenet-Darknet should work wonderfully over such a network :). (Well,