On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:39:18AM +0200, Lean Fuglsang wrote: > Why don't you just wait for the open net? > Dark net is supposed to be dark, so the Slashdot crowd should use the open > net. Dark net is only an advantage if you have low availability. If it is > legal where you are connecting from you should always use the open net.
Not true. If you have a reasonable degree of trust in your neighbours, darknet is considerably safer. Further, I expect opennet will have some of 0.5's bootstrapping problems. > > But it is an interesting test non the less, because it will put stress on > the darknet that it should be able to handle. Peers that connect with > small world topology should not be affected by an uber node. It's not the first 0.7 ubernode. There's the SkarX one for example. > > --Lean > > Den Thu, 18 May 2006 23:29:34 -0400. skrev Colin Davis: > > > For the purposes of testing, and regarding the thoughts in my last e- > > mail, I've set up two freenet nodes which are public- Anyone can add their > > reference to them, without interaction by me. > > > > Note- This is entirely different from the link exchange idea that I > > proposed in my last e-mail. I still prefer that solution, but that's not > > something I'm up to implementing. > > > > > > > > > > I set up my node by commenting out the ability to run any toadlets outside > > of the Darknet, and by disabling the ability for fproxy to delete nodes. I > > then put node on a publicly accessible IP, and told it to allow > > connections to anyone. > > This should allow people to connect, copy my noderef, and add their own. > > > > I'd love it if a few people could try connecting, and letting me know how > > it works for them. > > > > > > > > http://Ubernode.org > > > > > > Going to the site tells you my noderef, and allows you to add your > > own, without having to go through the Java server directly. By running > > through a quick apache page, I am able to spare the little server a small > > amount of pain. > > This is running on a small rented server, but should be an interesting > > experience to test. If nothing else, if it works at all, it can give > > Slashdotters at least /one/ node to connect to, slow though it will be. > > You can test to see if your node is added, by viewing the list of > > connections at (http://ubernode.org:8888/ darknet/) but that page is > > running through fproxy, so it slow. > > > > > > I've set another test/example up on my home connection (http:// > > akari.homeunix.org:8888/darknet/), but that connection is going to be far > > less stable, and it connects to the node directly, rather than going > > through a load-saving page, so will be slow as hell. Really. Use > > Ubernode.org instead. > > > > > > > > > > While I don't necessarily think public access nodes are a great solution > > for anything long-term, the ability for people to have a few places they > > can connect without user-interaction has to be better than the ref-swarms > > in IRC... > > It's an interesting thought-experiment for me, if nothing else. > > > > Just my ignorant thoughts. > > > > -Colin > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20060519/60a27d36/attachment.pgp>
