Re: [GNUnet-developers] Network size issues

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Christian Grothoff transcribed 4.4K bytes:
> On 4/30/19 7:33 AM, IC Rainbow wrote:
> > Maybe it would be useful for quickstarting F2F networks then?
> 
> Well, I'd expect F2F networks to generally prefer other mechanisms:
> a hostlist server, or LAN discovery might do just as well. Also, for
> simple exchange of the information without the extra 'eternal'
> persistence, we have the gnunet-peerinfo -g/-p command (which uses URLs
> for basically the same information, instead of binary files).
> 
> The gnunet-hello (and gnunet-peerinfo -g/-p) bootstrap mechanism also
> assumes that someone has a stable IP, which is not so common, so F2F
> networks in a LAN would do better with broadcast/multicast, and on the
> Internet possibly with a hostlist.
> 
> But of course, in principle, any mechanism could be used.
> 
> On 4/30/19 6:35 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> > Is it worth documenting, for example as gnunet-hello.1?
> > We do document other, not-intended for average users, applications
> > already.
> 
> Well, peerinfo will disappear with TNG, and HELLOs will look completely
> different with TNG. I haven't even planned how we would store these
> types of HELLOs in the TNG design, where usually everything is in
> PEERSTORE (which often uses a database instead of flat files). So there
> is a good chance that gnunet-hello will disappear or significantly
> change for 0.12.
 
Okay, so as an implementation note iff we keep it we can document it,
if not it's not worth the time.



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