I'm not sure I understand the problem here. Is the problem that too many nodes are backed off? Is it that if you have fewer nodes you have more backoff? What?
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 05:55:09PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Lets say I run a node, I don't care much about my own privacy... Thus > I peer fairly promiscuously, connecting with people who I hardly know > as long as they don't look too much like an EvilForce(tm). > > I do, however, have some friends who care more about anonymity than > me. They trust me not to operate a subverted node.. and perhaps they > have a few other friends like me... well connected because we're peer > sluts but personally trustable. > > My friends might have some more friends who care even more about > anonymity. They want to be an extra hop away from the wildly connected > portion of the graph. > > As it stands right now, my friends (and their friends) can't use > freenet.... They can't use it because they can't stay connected. As > my client uses it's capacity for it's zillion and one promiscuous > peerings, the chances that at any given time my friends will be backed > off is really good. > > Since my friend has a higher standard for who he'll peer with, he > doesn't have many peers. Thus the chances that he'll spend most of his > time partitioned from the network are pretty good. > > This could be drastically improved if I could set a preference on > peers which I wish to reserve capacity to keep my connections up > with... such information would be kept private to me but it would > enable my less connected friend nodes to stay strongly connected, > while I'm able to have widespread connectivity which makes my node > valuable to him. > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060421/844d6021/attachment.pgp>
