Yuan P Li wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This question is from a user in some extreme environment.
> Hope you can give us an answer.
>
> =======================
> Is it possible for a node in freenet to behave as a "data request only"
> node?
> Suppose that 1. we turn off the informWrite option, 2. we never tell any one
> about the node's IP address, and 3 the node makes only data request but no
> insert request.
> Does the above guarantee that there will be no nodes that can learn about
> the
> "data request only" node's IP? Hence, the node will never receive any data
> request from
> any other nodes.
> ========================
You need to both turn off the "informWrite" option and set your node to
"transient". If you don't set it to transient, your node may receive
data from others because of the "DataSource" field in Freenet.
Transient means that your node will never set the "DataSource" field to
itself.
>
>
> BTW, http://freenetproject.org and http://freenet.sourceforge.net
> are already blocked in China. If you send an email to some public email
> address in China with "Freenet" in it, your email will be returned
> with "contents not welcome". Those bustard!
Good to know that we're being noticed :)
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