On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:25:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The caches as they are now are designed to store only the 20 most recent > submissions, the number could be decreased to 5 for example. Also, they can run > only in the few days after announcing a new release in order to help new nodes. > After things stabilise, they can be shut down, assuming that we disable the > cache annoucnement code in order to retain control over who runs them. If a new > node can't connect to any of its bundled caches, it will just download the > references from hawk as before.
You do realize that the biggest problem with a centralized or semi-centralized directory is that each Freenet node now has to contact it, which gives you a centralized place to watch for the creation of new Freenet nodes.
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