Quoting Nick Tarleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sunday 10 August 2003 11:19 pm, Tom Kaitchuck wrote:
> > 2. What happens if the user updates Freenet to a new version? (From
> > www.freenetproject.com)
> Nothing bad. If they replace seednodes.ref though...
The general consensus seems to be that if one or two nodes of an isolated
freenet get word of the greater Freenet, that the two will merge. Is this
really so? If a node has knowledge of the internal freenet as well as the
external Freenet, it'll end up asking for data from both, but only the
internal one is going to have the data.
Presumably, the only data an internal node will be asking for is data that it
expects to be on the internal network. And even if one node was connected to
the outside world, and knew of data that was out there, then it would have to
talk to the outside network to get it, and the internal freenet would be left
alone.
If one node ("B") connected to the outside Freenet, and another internal node
("A") found out about some data on the Freenet, and asked for it, and found
the outside connected node ("B"), then there would be some merging there, but
surely the requests for internal stuff, from internal nodes, would drown out
any external traffic, and any merging the node with the outside Freenet would
be quickly undone.
All in all, it seems it would take a lot of requests for external data to get
the LAN freenet to merge with the Freenet, and how would the internal users
find out about the external data?
-todd
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