Dave Baker wrote: > Also, wouldn't connecting to a known ARK server give away the fact that you > were running Freenet?
Agreed - like I said, the ARK server (or someone eavesdropping on it) would be able to harvest addresses. But I'm not suggesting a single central server - there could be any number of servers, each trusted by a few individuals to the extent that they don't mind the server knowing that they're running Freenet, but either they don't trust the server quite enough to make it a darknet peer, or the server doesn't have enough bandwidth to make them all peers. The suggestion was motivated by the fact that static IP addresses are increasingly rare - if you're lucky enough to have one, you could serve the network by helping dynamically addressed peers to find one another. Cheers, Michael
