I sometimes (often) get failures when using freenet (via frost). I am guessing that this is because the public nodes are busy serving the client-nodes or the public nodes are unreliably connected.
I really want a very reliable service and wouldn't mind paying for it in kind. I propose a 3-tier freenet. Public, "Second-class" and "first-class". Members of the first-class freenet would commit to run one reliable node for each 20 client-nodes. The first-class freenet would reject traffic from the public access freenet and would never store information on the public freenet. This could be accomplished by maintaining a whitelist of the public keys of the first-class and second-class nodes. Each class node would load this list and only communicate with like-class nodes on the list. I don't think anonymity would be compromised. Wannabe members could submit there node-refs anonymously by public freenet to the admin. The admin could add them to the second-class list and later check the reliability of their node and automatically promote them to first-class and allow them to submit their 20 client-nodes. Is anyone interested in forming such a first-class network? or does it rob the public network of resources and so shouldn't be encouraged?. Public spirited node owners could always run a public node and a first-class node, maybe throttling the public node to lower values than the first-class node. -- Christopher William Turner, http://www.cycom.co.uk/ Java development since 1996 http://club.cycom.co.uk/tms.htm Terminology Management software http://club.cycom.co.uk/wt.htm Wind Turbine blade design software _______________________________________________ support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
