Re: [gentoo-dev] Gnunet and Gentoo

[Edward Muller]

There are ways firewall blocks esp. when using ssh and port forwarding.
:-) 

But even if this method was adopted I doubt it would be the 'only'
method, plus it's not even tested yet.

I didn't have time last night to start playing like I had hoped and
ended up having to work instead.

On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 13:28, Chuck Haines wrote:
> I see only one problem with this.  My college blocks all P2P file
> sharing clients are therefore this would prevent me from using Gentoo.
> This would not make me happy as Gentoo is the best distro I have found
> and I would like to continue using it.
>
> On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 16:17, Vik Olliver wrote:
> > Now that Gnunet has settled down:
> >
> > http://gecko.cs.purdue.edu/gnet/
> >
> > Might it be possible to use Gnunet to distribute the source tarballs
> > among Gentoo installations?
> >
> > As most users will tend to have their tarballs stored locally and are
> > very likely to have a network connection, Gentoo is an ideal
> > distribution for P2P updating - provided that some trusted GPG signature
> > (or MD5 at a pinch) can be used to verify the integrity of the source.
> >
> > Implementing this system frees Gentoo and all its applications from the
> > burden and expense of having to maintain a central source repository
> > with high bandwidth, allowing the distribution to grow freely at its own
> > pace. Fixes will percolate through automatically, software that is
> > banned in backward parts of the world will come through via untraceable
> > routes, and the caching will ensure that the file requests are
> > distributed evenly.
> >
> > I regret that I am already fully comitted (possibly over-comitted) to
> > charitable projects already, but I believe this idea should be aired to
> > those willing and able to implement it.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Vik Olliver
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