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Re: [Help-gnunet] GNUnet's Survival
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Alexander Winston |
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Re: [Help-gnunet] GNUnet's Survival |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:17:05 -0500 |
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 20:52, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 January 2004 00:31, Alexander Winston wrote:
> > What happens to GNUnet in the event that
> > <http://www.ovmj.org/GNUnet/download/hostlist> is unreachable? Are
> > people that are new to the network unable to find others to connect to?
>
> At the moment, yes -- unless they get some initial host-files from somewhere
> else. Note that it is easy for anyone running a GNUnet node to put up a
> hostlist (cat data/hosts/* > hostlist), so there is hope that at some point
> there will be more than one public initial hostlist.
>
> Now, if you talk about the problem that there may not be *any* hostlist
> accessible due to strong censorship, the only other technical possibility
> would be to essentially scan random Internet IPs trying to find other peers.
> Of course, with less than 100 GNUnet peers online, the chances of finding one
> this way are less than one in a million attempts, but that's pretty much the
> only mechanism out there that would not rely on some "well-known" initial
> point of contact.
>
> Does this answer your question?
Yep, it does so perfectly. Thank you!
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