On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 09:10:20PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote:
> > However, I have some problems with it. The main problem is that you can't
> > randomly select gateways as you suggest. Well, you can randomly select one
> > the first time, but then all of the references to your node are based on
> > this node.
>
> No - my intention is that every time you set a datasource in a message,
> you can select a different shield node, so that even if one of those
> shield nodes goes down, only nodes which store references which redirect
> through it (which might be 2% of all references to your node) won't
> work. The address specification could even allow specification of
> multiple shield nodes for a given request which can be tried
> sequentially if the first one fails.
Combined with the ARK idea, a shadow node's ARK could list the shield
nodes it is currently using, which could be looked up if the shield node
given in the DataSource goes down.
// Tavin Cole
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