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Colin Davis schrieb:
> If we added a  button to the installer to add yourself as a seednode, 
> perhaps we could offer a better collection of starting nodes.
> 
> 
> 
> Do you want to be added to Freenet Directory?
> Adding yourself to the Freenet Directory will publicly publish your 
> connection information, so that new users can use your machine to get up 
> and running faster.
> Publishing your information to the Freenet Directory will allow people 
> to find out that you're running freenet, but will not compromise your 
> anonymity on the network.
> 
> [Yes, Publish my information to the directory.]
> [No, Keep me me as Secure as Possible]
> 
> 
> If they clicked Yes, it could then start the heuristics to check that 
> the node has been up long enough, IP stable, etc, before auto-posting 
> the noderef through php to freenet.com, which could then add it to the 
> next download, or we could have the installer download a random 
> selection from the noderefs during the installation process.
> 
> -Colin
> 

If we want to provide such an option (which should not be given in the
installer but on the config page, so established nodes will become
Seednodes not nodes which haven't integrated well and will be
uninstalled soon as the user just wanted to give it a try) then we need
working seednode harvesting, but that seems pretty complicated as far as
it has been discussed, but if you have an idea, we will be glad to hear
it. We also (for obvious reasons) don't want the seednodes.fref to
become something like the yellow pages for opennet (where not everyone
but almost everyone has an entry and no checks are being made).
The reasons are:
- - freenet is anonymity software, we don't want to publish an almost
complete list of our users
- - if there are many nodes installed and uninstalled, the list becomes
crappy, because many entries lead nowhere, it will take even longer for
new users to connect
- - the seednodes.fref should stay under a few MB
- - we don't want it spammed or even worse flooded with entries from
attackers

regards
Neo at NHNG

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