One issue that might need consideration is the extensibility of the network when a public alpha version is released.
Currently, each node has a hard-coded limit of 20 opennet connections. These slots are, at least on my nodes, all filled up on nodes connected to the network. Now if this is also the situation with the seednodes, how do newcomers integrate into the network? Or will newcomers form a new, disconnected outer layer? This would especially be an issue after a slashdot. IMO there would be need for hub -nodes, that are well connected to the network, and which have a flexible amount of connections. The nodes would cut off nodes based on some algorithm based on the usefulness of a link (data transferred, success rate, etc.). However, the nodes would always allow new connections, and only after some time enter the new connections into the competition of the necessity of the link. The darkent/opennet structure could have fullfilled this need, with the darknet building persistent connections that form the core network, and an opennet for newcomers to find more permanent links. However, there is currently no mechanism of moving opennet connections to darknet, or make them otherwise (semi-)permanent, or is there? -- Malkus Lindroos Matthew Toseland wrote: > Hopefully we will release a second public alpha of Freenet 0.7 next week. > Please test Freenet, and reply to this thread with any bugs that you think > need to be fixed urgently. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > Support at freenetproject.org > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:support-request at freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
