If these ten nodes are only interconnected with themselves they -of course- have no access to the larger network and therefore form a small private, albeit darknet, network. If one of the nodes is connected to the "global" darknet, then the ten nodes have access to the global darknet but routing might be impaired as the other nine nodes will not connect to the darknet.
Opennet is a completely different story as nodes are seeded by seednodes (therefore private networks are possible if the nodes don't access the seednodes, but by default opennet nodes ask seednodes). Also opennet nodes do swap informations about their peers, so nodes without knowledge of other nodes might come across new noderefs and connect to previously unknown nodes to enhance connectivity. Hope this helped Peter S wrote: > Just a simple question; 10 peers, none using opennet, and all > interconnected with each node having the other 9 in their trusted > peers list .. will they be able to access the 'actual freenet', or is > this just a small private and closed circle, with only the content > they publish inside that circle available? > If 10 peers in a closed loop as described /can/ access the freenet, I > just don't understand HOW that's possible without talking to other > nodes in an opennet fashion and somewhat compromising the closed loop. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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
