On Friday 28 November 2008 20:36, Colin Davis wrote:
> 
> > IMHO we should always download the opennet seednodes. The file is very 
small, 
> > it's not a big overhead. And the auto-start option ... we probably can't 
turn 
> > it off from the wizard, but we could create a "Disable auto-starting 
Freenet" 
> > option on the start menu.
> >   
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I would imagine that the concern with downloading the seednodes is that 
> it makes a request to the public internet, giving away the fact that 
> you're installing Freenet. (You might have downloaded from a USB stick, 
> etc).
> 
> How often do the seednodes change? Couldn't the list of seednodes be 
> bundled in the .tgz with the installer + jars?

They will be bundled in the offline installer (along with the plugins, the 
main jars etc; the normal installer downloads them too). We could however 
bundle the seednodes file and plugins in the normal installer.
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