It's clear that the Gnutella Web Cache system is collapsing. The UDP cache system is far better, but is unfortunately useless to people which are UDP-firewalled (a majority of people).
Therefore, as a last resort, when we detect for instance that out of 4 UHC pings, no pong was received, we should switch to querying GWC, and if that fail, turn to a GTKG-specific server. That server could run on the vserver the GTKG community bought. It would not be a GWC, but would still use TCP, to allow firewalled people to use it for bootstrapping. A call for idea is launched: how can we make sure this GTKG-specific server is not used by other servents, and how can we devise a much more bandwidth-efficient protocol than HTTP for getting bootstrapping hosts? Finally, volunteers are called for to adapt GhostWhiteCrab once the specification are done. Raphael ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel
