On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:49:19PM -0500, Terin wrote: > > >We have plenty of traffic already if you hadn't noticed. > > So? The idea is to *spread* that traffic. Currently, we are *extremely* > centralized and very reliant on a small set of nodes.. Somewhat centralized. For bootstrapping only. The "extremely" comes from the fact that that 99.9% of our users bootstrap by downloading seednodes from hawk. GWebCache would NOT SOLVE THIS PROBLEM, because an attacker could almost as easily find all bootstrap nodes through the GWebCache's as through centralized seednodes. > > >This is purely about bootstrapping. People do not need fifty nodes to > >bootstrap from. > > You'd get started much faster with fifty nodes that weren't always flooded > than with 50 centralized nodes that are flooded. Hawk generates 300 nodes, the node randomly picks 50 of them. > As for flooding? Why not simply add a little flag or something that if the > person had it set, they wouldn't download or upload > node refs to/from others. I am opposed to this GWebCache crap because, firstly, it would be easier and cleaner to do it in the node/dist servlet, secondly, it's dangerous - if even 1% of the network exports their routing table, that's HALF THE NETWORK compromized instantly. >
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