> MSN and AOL running a freenet 'portal' is a thought too horriffic to > contemplate. I imagine we need some sort of distributed database of > initial nodes for new nodes to connect to. The hosts involved in this > database could be hard-coded into the node. Don't give the user the > option of entering 'freenet.spawn-of-satan-corporation.com'.
You should connect to nodes you personally know about, run by people you trust. If you don't have that option, then there should be several avenues with which to discover them: irc bots, usenet group, e-mail bot, web sites, and of course through Freenet itself. We've been talking about adding a "give me a list of nodes you know about". We could set up some nodes that reject most traffic, must respond to such messages. This would be like the Gnutella host caches (gnet.ath.cx, etc.). It's also a lot like inform.php except that ANY node can perform this function and the client authors just include a list of nodes that they trust (since you have to trust the client authors somewhat if you're going to use their clients). So it's not centralized, but it's not really decentralized the way we like things to be, but I think it's the closest we can get for this particular problem. Oh yeah, and an MSN Freenet node would be very good. Lots of space and bandwidth. As long as only other untrusted nodes talk to it, you're not really harming anything. I mean, I wouldn't set *my* node up to talk to it, but I would be fine with Uprizer setting its node to talk to it and then setting my node to talk to Uprizer. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
