On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> [Yes I screwed this up ---ISPs do commonly block incoming 80. But
Yes, some do, but not all of them. Mine doesn't. Some cable modem ISPs in
fact encourage people running servers at home, offering static IPs and
extra bandwidth. One would think th
At 04:51 PM 3/29/02 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote:
>"Major Variola (ret)" wrote:
>> To resist 1. you can use port 80, which ISPs can't block without
losing
>> most
>> 'legitimate' utility for the masses :-) Or you use randomly varying
>> ports and have to do more door-knocking.
[Yes I screwed this
"Major Variola (ret)" wrote:
>
> I've been thinking about noncentralized self-organizing network
> topologies since George
> posted his query. First, there are several problems that any P2P
> network faces in the future
> hostile world:
>
> 1. ISPs blocking its ports
>
> 2. The "entry
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
> 3. Slow connections, slow machines
Thanks to gamers, ping latencies are getting better. ADSL is a pain, but
even 128 kBit upstream can be useful, if aggregated from multiple sites.
Queries for distributed P2P search engines should use ACKless
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Greg Broiles wrote:
> This sounds like a bad assumption to me - both because it seems
> unworkable given the size of the IPv4 address space (without even
> thinking about IPv6), and because randomly probing other machines isn't
> likely to be allowed (or successful) in a more
