Re: [Help-gnunet] GNUnet's Survival

[Alexander Winston]

On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 20:52, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 January 2004 00:31, Alexander Winston wrote:
> > What happens to GNUnet in the event that
> > <http://www.ovmj.org/GNUnet/download/hostlist> is unreachable? Are
> > people that are new to the network unable to find others to connect to?
> 
> At the moment, yes -- unless they get some initial host-files from somewhere 
> else.  Note that it is easy for anyone running a GNUnet node to put up a 
> hostlist (cat data/hosts/* > hostlist), so there is hope that at some point 
> there will be more than one public initial hostlist.
> 
> Now, if you talk about the problem that there may not be *any* hostlist 
> accessible due to strong censorship, the only other technical possibility 
> would be to essentially scan random Internet IPs trying to find other peers.  
> Of course, with less than 100 GNUnet peers online, the chances of finding one 
> this way are less than one in a million attempts, but that's pretty much the 
> only mechanism out there that would not rely on some "well-known" initial 
> point of contact.
> 
> Does this answer your question?

Yep, it does so perfectly. Thank you!

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