On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 08:20:41PM -0500, thelema wrote: > > This will replace the current mechanism for obtaining a node's reference > > which is to use the -x or --export command line option. > > > I think that the node's reference should be written to disk ad myref.ref > or something when the node is automatically created. I don't think it's > necessary (or that useful) to have this command.
It certainly isn't nescessary, but I think it is useful, since it allows a client to find out the node's reference easily, without having to know where the node was installed. > I'm *VERY* for this functionality. This is something I've wanted for a > long time. Instead of making it part of FCP, it'd be quite acceptable > to have it be a command-line option where you pass the reference file, > but I could code it up in liber2.pl to be able to do this, if we do it > over FCP. Using command line arguments for this type of thing is ugly, which is why I want to move away from the "-x" functionality. Nodes should be left running, with FCP used to extract information and perform other useful functions in the manner I have described. > I might revise this so that instead of returning > nodes whose CP=1, you could have a paremeter to the request to specify > that you want references whose CP is greater than that number. I did consider that, and wouldn't object to it, although I suspect most people would set that configuration option to 1 anyway. > Related to this would be a command that just dumps out (in some nice > format) some info about each node (their contact info or whatever) and > their CP, so we'd be able to look at the CPs for all neighbors. That'd > be useful information for many reasons, and it'd have to be a FCP > command. I did think about that too, but that would prevent the output from being directly pipable into a seedNodes file, as an option it might be useful, but I wouldn't make it a priority. Lets worry about feature creep after the basic functionality is implemented. > > More ambitiously, by allowing FCP connections from a specific remote > > host, that host could regularly harvest references from a variety of > > volunteer servers around the net, and even use those servers in a > > distributed way to test references using TestReference. > Interesting. And possibly very useful. I like the idea. We just need > someone with enough skillz to code it up. It would be simple to achieve once the functionality is in FCP, and that should be pretty straight-forward too. Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20011007/9fa90a8f/attachment.pgp>
