> On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 06:03:58PM +1200, David McNab wrote:
> > 6) FTP - not supported yet - repositories of downloadable media files are
> > presently implemented as a loose network of inter-linked freesites - scope
> > exists for a freenet client to be implemented as a localhost FTP server,
> > which inserts files that are picked up by an anonymous master server, which
> > re-inserts these files under a master tree. Enumerated keys instead of
> > date-based SSKs. Through using SSK public or private keys under the root,
> > the FTP server can support the FTP client in inserting and requesting keys.
> 
> The problem with this is that tis does require a master server, even
> though it is anonymous.  This is similar to freesites, but this server
> has to be constantly running for such a scheme to work at all like
> "real" FTP.

Why not run a "proxy" for FTP as fproxy is for HTTP?




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