On 5/3/06, Michael Rogers <m.rogers at cs.ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >
I don't like the idea, it's way too centralised, it's better to do everything in a non-centralised way and if needed rely on services widely used by joe average so they can't be shut down just like that, they'd still have the monitoring problem but it's better than creating our own central servers.
