Making Freenet Find Stuff Faster

Sanity writes "Many probably saw the recent announcement of Freenet 0.5.2. This release represented a vast amount of work - primarily in reducing Freenet's CPU and memory requirements. However, streamlining Freenet's current functionality isn't all we've been working on. I just finished an article that describes the most fundamental improvement to Freenet's core algorithm since its original design over three years ago, it is called "Next Generation Routing" and has the potential to dramatically increase the speed with which Freenet retrieves information. It could even make Freenet faster than the World Wide Web in many circumstances, all without compromizing anonymity and while remaining immune to the /. effect."

Comments

Challange?

[traskjd]

"immune to the /. effect."

If this isn't a challange I don't know what is :-)

-traskjd

Re:Challange?

[Surak]

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly downloaded Freenet in a fury and it was suddenly silenced. :-P

Re:Challange?

[Guppy06]

Fine. You go off and try to Slashdot something on a network where you can't even find what you're trying to Slashdot. :)

A dare?

[ATAMAH]

> ... and while remaining immune to the /. effect
Said the author of the slashdotted article.

Beware the Federation

[Vagary]

You know what'd be really impressive? Finding a way to make FreeNet slower. It'd be so slow you could make a Beowulf cluster of FreeNet nodes and use it as a time machine. Personally, I'd use it to go back to Ian Clarke's dorm room and convince him to get drunk and high rather than wasting his life making a P2P system that will be useful around the same time we have to start worrying about being censored by the United Federation of Planets. But that's just me.

Re:Good.

[Squidgee]

Ooooh, that's how it works.

Dammit, I hate it when I miss things.

Re:Freenet not a panacea

[RPoet]

If that's true, any ISP or network administrator should immediately think twice about running that Cisco router. Who knows what stuff it's routing!

Re:Immune to /., perhaps

[thynk]

Ok, so I did all of that when I set it up...

Now the question all the new freenetters really want answered, is - after installing, configuring and letting run for a while.... How do I get some porn off the nextwork? Is there a cache of keys on the netsomewhere that I need to be able to find or what? Is there a crawler app that just keeps track of what it knows it's run across and builds it's own little directory??????

Re:Easy update for existing freenet users.

[Jugalator]

Haha

Funny that Windows users have to click on rabbits while Linux users run a script. :-)

Is it really that necessary to insult the Windows users' intelligence by not including a batch file? ;-)

Re:Easy update for existing freenet users.

[Zork the Almighty]

Is it really that necessary to insult the Windows users' intelligence by not including a batch file?

Does matter, given that the intelligence of Windows users is insulted every day by Windows itself ?

Do not download porn from Freenet.

[HanzoSan]

If you download porn, the spyware programmed into Freenet will foward your IP to the RIAA, FBI, NSA, and then post it to a few hacking/warez newsgroups and forums.

Freenet is NOT a pornster program.

Well there's three definitions of the word 'fixed'

[TerryAtWork]

Lets see if we can use them all...

Freenet is now being 'fixed' like a leaky faucet is fixed.

The RIAA wants the digitial audio/video market 'fixed' like a crooked horse race is fixed.

With the new Freenet the RIAA is about to be 'fixed' like your dog at the vet's is fixed.

I think that about covers it.

Re:Its not ready yet.

[hesiod]

> I'm going to wait for NGrouting.

N Grouting? Does that mean I can seal my bathtub remotely? Cool feature!