On Sunday 10 August 2003 07:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could Freenet be adapted to function only on a LAN, to share file of > dubious legality? It seems that the University could avoid liability, by > acquiring common-carrier status for the files that are distributed. Also, > the RIAA would be none-the-wiser to all of the files shared internally over > the University Freenet. I'm not quite sure how this would work, but...
> I don't know much about the inner workings of Freenet, but what would it > take to get this started? (note: this applies to static IP networks only, if you use DHCP ask someone else, and all this is just my idea, I've never actually done it) 1. Start 20 or so nodes, then shut them down. Make sure their IPs are set to their internal network IPs. 2. Get their public node references (I don't know how to do this, but it's *not* the 'node' file), put them in one big text file, and save this as seednodes.ref on each node, replacing the default. 3. Start them all back up. Test. 4. To establish a new node, before starting it for the first time, replace seednodes.ref with the copy created in step 2. 5. Periodically export new seednodes.ref files and use these instead. 6. Change the updater to get the seednodes.ref file from some internal location instead of the Freenet site. If one local node gets the wrong seednodes.ref, then AFAICS, your local network will slowly coalesce into the main Freenet as announcements pass through that one node, then a few more, then a few more... disastrophe. If this happens, shut down all nodes at the same time, replace all of their seednodes.ref, and restart them. Needless to say, in a university, that won't be easy. > It seems to me that the main hurdle (after convincing the University > administration to go along with it) is to create a useful means of > searching. People could create their own indexes on freesites, or use Frost (jtcfrost.sf.net), which is a message board/filesharing app. -- http://earth.prohosting.com/tqbay "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by." - Douglas Adams Nick Tarleton - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - PGP key available _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
