[tahoe-dev] Multiple introducers announcing their presence on a grid

eurekafag eurekafag at eureka7.ru
Mon Jul 26 17:42:57 UTC 2010


What's the point in having lots of introducers? I guess one may pretty
well serve hundreds if not thousands of nodes like torrent tracker
does. It merely broadcasts IPs and not the data itself.

2010/7/26 M O Faruque Sarker <writefaruq at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering if you could share your thoughts about the above somewhat
> plain idea of publishing the presence of new introducers same as new
> clients. By this any client can learn about new introducers and save their
> furls in the multi "introducers" config file and later to connect to them.
> But this plain implementation can bring serious security threats to the
> grid.
>
> Any idea regarding this issue would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Faruq
>
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