In my particular case, the LAN is behind a firewall. The computers behind the firewall cannot act as servers for computers outside of the firewall, so that will stop half of this potential problem (outside nodes considering the LAN nodes part of the global Freenet). From what I understand, as long as the computers with the replaced seednodes.ref are listed in the seednodes.ref, the nodes on this side of the firewall won't be affected by this problem either. That is, the nodes on this side of the firewall would continue only communicating on the LAN, rather than trying to reach out to the outside world.
Best Regards, Drew http://www.drewbradford.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Hot Stuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, August 11, 2003 1:35 pm Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Distributed LAN Filesystem > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
