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Re: [Gzz] Bummer
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Tuomas Lukka |
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Re: [Gzz] Bummer |
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Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:30:06 +0200 |
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> Realization I just had: Of course, a distributed hashtable used with Gzz
> should not only be able to store *peers* that host a given block (as in,
> the peer hosting the block tells the DHT so), but also *regular HTTP
> servers* (as in, a peer tells the DHT, "I know that block X/the body of
> block X can be downloaded at URL Y).
AAAAAAAAAAAAGH! YES!
Absolutely. This puts things really nicely together.
> For files that cannot be deeply linked, we can still have a reference
> saying, 'you can download that block if you go to this web page,' though
> this would need to be coupled with some way to assert credibility,
> otherwise you could confuse people by directing them to arbitrary pages.
That's true for the above as well; you could otherwise DDOS someone
by putting their server down for all blocks in the known universe.
Tuomas
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