Weiliang Zhang wrote:
Saw the port 8891 in freenet.conf only today.... What are distribution servlets used for? My nodes seems to be running ok with this port firewalled.
The distribution servlet allows other people to download Freenet from your node, along with some node references. Most new users use http://freenetproject.org/snapshots/seednodes.ref as their initial node references, so those nodes are getting swamped with requests from newbie nodes. Also, freenetproject.org a single point of failure to new users. If they can't access freenetproject.org due to censorship, they still download Freenet and seednodes from a friendly node's distribution servlet.
-- Mika Hirvonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://nightwatch.mine.nu/
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