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On Saturday 08 June 2002 19:51, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Revenant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > To take the extreme example, a system based around all transient
> > nodes would require greater 'mirroring' of any given piece of data.
>
> [...]
>
> I don't understand this part at all. A Freenet with all transient
> nodes cannot insert anything at all. No node will be able to contact
> any other node, because nobody's accepting incoming connections.
>
> Maybe you're misunderstanding what "transient" means in this case. We're
> not talking about nodes that are up part of the time and down part of
> the time. We're talking about nodes that have "transient=true" in their
> freenet.conf (or freenet.ini) file. These aren't really Freenet nodes
> at all; they do not participate in the routing and data storage parts
> of Freenet. In particular, they do not permit incoming connections from
> other nodes. All they can do is leech.
Back in the 0.2 days (and I doubt things have changed in this regard), I
belive "transient node" was defined as a node that never sets the
"DataSource" fields in FNP to itself. If you knew what the node referance is
for a transient node, you could still request and insert things from it like
any other node. However, the network as a whole has no means to find out
what the node referance is.
- --
"If that makes any sense to you, you have a big problem."
--C. Durance, Computer Science 234
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