Hello everybody, I have this idea in mind and would like to know if there has been some effort in implementing it or not. The idea is to add exit nodes to freenet that when the content isn't available on the network some nodes fetch it from traditional web. The idea is coming from this tool called "Unblock":
http://unblock.cs.washington.edu/unblock.pdf It's a hybrid overlay/proxy system that helps people bypass censorship. However, it lacks the distributed storage component of the Freenet, which can be very valuable when the censorship is very tight (whitelisting for example) and hence exit nodes and their bandwidth are rare compared to the demand inside the censored area. I would like to know if there has been any effort in implementing such a hybrid solution in Freenet. Earlier this evening I had a discussion on that with toad on IRC which I'm attaching here but his final conclusion is here: "it's something you could layer on top of freenet with a plugin. it will be hideously slow but it might be faster or more convenient than the alternatives (tor via a bridge, if they don't block them; VPNs; tunnels via external friends, end up getting shared very thinly, low bandwidth; etc) it's been suggested occasionally but not implemented afaik, i don't remember where it's likely to be high latency - similar to the man-on-a-bicycle-once-a-week schemes they use for some villages in the middle of nowhere in the third world that can't afford a satellite but for static content we can deal with that - and it WILL be faster than that assuming we're not using sneakernet transport :)" Cheers, Vmon -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: freenet-discussion-20130123.txt URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20130124/48b4a9e2/attachment.txt>
