Gnutella at One Year

transient writes: "Gnutella's first birthday passed quietly about 10 days ago. An OpenP2P article reflects on the Gnutella network as a transient extension of the Web, since Gnutella peers use HTTP for file transfer and are essentially Web servers. Seems the network keeps evolving; there's some discussion of the new BearShare Defender and more info on the recent Gnutella virus. If Gnutella peers are Web servers, wouldn't that make Gnutella users who share files equivalent to Web site publishers, with the same responsibilities?"

Comments

Gnutella scalbility and multicast

[Omnifarious]

If easy to program, easy to implement multicast were available, gnutella would've used it and not been nearly as poor in the scalability department. Gnutella is basically a layer 5 implementation of anysource multicast that uses flooding to get its job done.

If anybody is interested, I talk to Radia Perlman at IETF 50 last week, and we would like to try to form a working group around making an RFC out of the simple multicasting protocol she describes in the last chapter of her book 'Internetworking'.

One year?

[rograndom]

Yeah, that seems about how long I've been waiting for this file to download.

:)

Happy Bday

[Joey7F]

Wow one year? In net fads years, that is like what, middle aged?

I remember the old alpha days, where nothing would work and hardly anything would download, yup glad those days are gone.

--Joey