On Wednesday 23 January 2008 19:53, Michael Tänzer wrote: > Colin Davis schrieb: > > If we added a button to the installer to add yourself as a seednode, > > perhaps we could offer a better collection of starting nodes. > > > > Do you want to be added to Freenet Directory? > > Adding yourself to the Freenet Directory will publicly publish your > > connection information, so that new users can use your machine to get up > > and running faster. > > Publishing your information to the Freenet Directory will allow people > > to find out that you're running freenet, but will not compromise your > > anonymity on the network. > > > > [Yes, Publish my information to the directory.] > > [No, Keep me me as Secure as Possible] > > > > If they clicked Yes, it could then start the heuristics to check that > > the node has been up long enough, IP stable, etc, before auto-posting > > the noderef through php to freenet.com, which could then add it to the > > next download, or we could have the installer download a random > > selection from the noderefs during the installation process. > > > > -Colin > > If we want to provide such an option (which should not be given in the > installer but on the config page, so established nodes will become > Seednodes not nodes which haven't integrated well and will be > uninstalled soon as the user just wanted to give it a try)
IMHO it should be in the post-install wizard, so that lots of users see it. The node would then only announce itself to the seednode harvester if it was eligible i.e. after a certain amount of uptime, after it's sure it's port forwarded (which takes 12 hours btw) etc. > then we need > working seednode harvesting, but that seems pretty complicated as far as > it has been discussed, but if you have an idea, we will be glad to hear > it. We also (for obvious reasons) don't want the seednodes.fref to > become something like the yellow pages for opennet (where not everyone > but almost everyone has an entry and no checks are being made). > The reasons are: > - freenet is anonymity software, we don't want to publish an almost > complete list of our users > - if there are many nodes installed and uninstalled, the list becomes > crappy, because many entries lead nowhere, it will take even longer for > new users to connect > - the seednodes.fref should stay under a few MB > - we don't want it spammed or even worse flooded with entries from > attackers > > regards > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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