Re: [Mldonkey-users] FYI: News from savannah.nongnu.org

[Lionel Bouton]

Leif Sandstede wrote:

> > "http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/mldonkey/network/";
> >
> > Anyone knows a mirror ?
> >    
> It is a nice idea but it does not always work for me anyway so I would not 
> mind if it would be removed. 
> That said I do not think the svannah people would mind one request per client 
> per day we would just have to make sure that it is not more often another ini 
> or addition to downloads.ini would be nice I think.

I don't think so. They made it clear that savannah.nongnu.org is for dev 
purpose only. mldonkey configuration doesn't have its place here. That 
was not really a problem when mldonkey was more like an experimental 
project with few users.

This is not the case anymore : mldonkey is now rather succesfull :

- latest stat I saw on mldonkey clients numbers showed  ~ 30000 clients.
- savannah admins report ~130000 hits /day.

So one client doesn't really hammer the site, but the whole p2p network 
does.

Wild idea :

What would be really powerfull is a mean to get the configuration from 
the network itself : mldonkey clients should be able to pass the config 
between themselves. There should be one central release point 
(controlled by developpers) which would sign with a private key the 
latest config and make it available through a protocol extension. Two 
mldonkeys might then be able to :
- determine which one claims the latest timestamp,
- the one having the oldest downloads the latest if not already 
downloading one (even if it is older to prevent DoS with high timestamps),
- upon succesfull download, it checks the signature with the public key. 
Ok -> replace config.

-> no big load on a central server.

One client should probably have one free slot to begin negotiating this 
(uploading the config should take one upload slot).

LB.