On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 01:23:38PM +0100, Ian Clarke wrote: > > Nodes also know about nodes because I put them in the nodes.config > > myself. I'd like the option of only talking to such nodes and ignoring > > nodes from the DataSource. Then I would be talking to only trusted nodes. > > Er, but if everybody did that Freenet wouldn't work. A fundamental > part of Freenet's adaptive mechanism is the "path compression" which > comes from nodes using the DataSource field. Removing this > functionality from your node would probably mean that the presence of > your node is doing more harm than good in the Freenet network.
Everybody doing that will obviously not work, but there is a good chance that as long as a signifigant portion of the nodes are not using it, you will still get the necessary path compression. We need to simulate the results of this before we put anything like it in, of course. > > Ian. -- \oskar _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
