On Thu, 24 May 2001, Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso wrote:
> Joining the network is simply a matter of first discovering the address of
> one or more existing nodes through out-of-band means, then starting to send
> messages.
>
> [...]
>
> Surely the problem is that I've no idea what 'out-of-band means' means, but
> I've not been able to understand how a new node finds another one to join the
> network.
'Out-of-band' just means you have to find the address of a trusted node
somewhere other than Freenet. It's stating the obvious.
Once you have that node's address, however, you can use the 0.4 node
announcement protocol to request a list of nodes to start out with, and to
let them know that you exist and can recieve requests.
During normal operation, Freenet nodes learn about other nodes, too.
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