Brandon:
> > 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. So you can't switch gateways. And if the gateway gets shut
> > down the all of the references to your node are broken.
Scott:
> Sure you can. Why not?
If you're running a shielded node, your address is relative to the address
of the proxy node. I suppose you could say that you can "switch" proxy
node by starting to send your messages through a new proxy, in which case
you'll still be receiving messages from the old proxy but will now how two
addresses by which you can receive messages. That's not advantageous from
the point of routing, in which you want to a single address for each node.
But worse is that I don't know how you could use ARK resolution to
maintain your address as proxy nodes disappear from the network if you
have multiple addresses since an ARK only resolves to a single address.
Which means, basically, that if you're trying to switch proxies then
you'll end up with broken references to your node, which is bad.
If you use a single proxy and ARK resolution then you can maintain a
single consistent address forever.
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