I think there may be a more secure way of doing this. I don't like the
idea of any one node's references being used, as this essentially
"places" a new node next to the seed-giver in network space.
Scott
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 04:31:59PM +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> It would be easy enough to implement something.
> For example, a node, if it had the "public" flag enabled, would have its
> routing table exported at a fixed location on the distrib servlet port,
> as hypertext so that other public nodes' tables could be read or
> spidered from there. The problem is any scheme like this trades some
> centralization for some attackability - do we really want to make it so
> easy to find a large fraction of nodes on the network?
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:35:01AM -0500, zbalevsk at bridgeport.edu wrote:
> >
> >
> > >In effect, a node itself could act in a similar manner to these=20
> > >"gwebcache" scripts, which could be harvested centrally and mixed=20
> > >together.
> >
> > It actually does, through servlet/nodestatus/noderefs.txt. Unfortunately
> > that
> > servlet is not accesible from the outside in the default installation. If
> > it
> > were, it would take _literally_ 30 minutes to adapt the gwebcaches.
> >
> > >Having said all that, is there any evidence that the current mechanism=20
> > >isn't working?
> >
> > Currently it could be argued that the very uneven distribution of the load
> > is in
> > part due to all new nodes getting similar entry points to the network. The
> > problem will manifest when the number of new nodes starts to increase
> > rapidly
> > (i.e. when a new release is announced).
> >
> > I know this is far from perfect, but it is very fast to deploy. As I said
> > above
> > if public access is given by default to the above servlet, it will take 30
> > minutes to have the caches running. If that doesn't happen (there are
> > probably
> > security/privacy issues), but if someone experienced in php is willing to
> > help
> > it could be done in few hours. Even if I do it all by myself it would not
> > take
> > more than 2-3 days.
> >
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