On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:15:18PM -0400, Benjamin Coates wrote:
> There's a possiblity, because you can manually tell nodes about each
> other, so you could set up a network of transient nodes that all have
> each other in their nodes.config if you wanted... not that I can think
> of a good use for that.
The nodes on the surface of the cluster (non-transient) would form a
screen around the nodes in the centre, preventing their IP addresses from
leaking. The nodes on the surface might be run by people in a liberal
jurisdiction, where it was legal to run a node, on behalf of people in a
more restrictive jurisdiction, who would be able to run the nodes in the
centre in relative secrecy (although a wiretap would still reveal that
they were running nodes). The nodes on the surface would be configured to
reset the dataSource in both directions, so the nodes in the core would
never speak to or hear from the outside world.
The reason to have transient nodes in the core is that it protects the
cluster from infiltrators. If the nodes inside the cluster traded
addresses freely, a single bogus node could find out about the whole
cluster.
Michael
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