There was a request for me to be more clear about "Bootstrapping with
Keyindexes"

The bootstrapping process is currently outside freenet.  You use  DNS
and the web to get the IP of "octayne" running "inform.php".  It is
bootstrapping because the installation software is preset with the web
address for the "octayne" system now.     

Since the capability now exists to have an in-freenet keyindex that is
updated daily, why not have the bootstrapping process go to an
"in-freenet" keyindex that is known to exist because some machine within
the Freenet project is doing the daily insertions to it.  This would be
very similar to what octayne does now, except it would be in-freenet. 
This makes the freenet nodes listing exist under a private key so that
web hacks could not somehow mangle or get large portions of the
listing.  

Perhaps a "nodes.config" file could be included in the distribution so
that newbies could find the site there.  If you wanted heightened local
node protection you could have the installation software remove the
"nodes.config" file after it has verified connectivity with the
in-freenet source(s) for node information. The  "nodes.config" could be
changed fairly easily to modify where and how the bootstrapping

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