I am posting this message to tech because others may be interested and to let people know that DistribNet is not vaporware. I have no plans on posting other releases of DistribNet to tech as this mailing list is obviously meant for freenet related discussion.
DistribNet is the network I talked about around around a year ago on this list. I would post a link to the discussion in the archive but it doesn't seam to go back that far. -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:36:55 -0500 (EST) From: Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Announcing a new version of DistribNet I just released a new snapshot of DistribNet. DistribNet is a Global peer-to-peer Internet file system in which anyone can tap into or add content to. You can find it at http://distribnet.sourceforge.net/. Compared the last version I released over a year ago this version is a functional network. However it is in no way ready to be used for anything but testing. I would appreciate it if other would take a look and give feedback. I would especially be interested if someone which accesses to a large cluster can test it out as I have not actually tested if it functions over the network (all my testing was done by launching multiple nodes on the same computer). Expect more improvements to come. Release Notes So far DistribNet has only been tested on my computer which is RedHat 8.0 (Kernel 2.4). Other linux systems should work. Other POSIX systems might work. Forget Win32 for now. DistribNet requires: GNU Libc (I use a few thread safe extensions) Gcc 3.1 or better (Gcc 2.95 may work) POSIX Threads Berkeley DB Version 4 or better OpenSSL (I use version 0.9.6b) Perl (for the scipts) A Web Browser Status and Future The routing table is pretty much done. Future versions will use a better selection algorithm for determining which nodes to use. Data keys are implemeted. However, no caching is done. Other key types are not. The protocol is subject to change. Absolutly no garantee will be made that different versions of DistribNet. The photocol will stabilize once I get the basics done. Absolutely no security. Once I get all the basics done I work on adding security, which includes encrypting all communication. Integers are not properly converted to network order. This will be done at the same time the photocol is being stabilized. Basically until I get the basics done, don't expect to be able to use DistribNet for anything other than testing. However, please do test it. Since DistribNet is my Masters Theseus I will be working nearly full time on it for the next couple of months. However, I would defiantly appreciate help with the implementation. General ideas, of course, are also welcome. Please post them to distribnet-devel at lists.sourceforge.net and not to me directly so others can benefit from our discussion. Attached is a text copy of the distribnet design document. -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
