[Mnet-devel] Re: [p2p-hackers] Freenet, Mnet, GNUnet, Circle

[Ian Clarke]

Zooko wrote:
>  Do any of these other P2Ps have design flaws like Freenet??

I am not sure what flaws he is referring to, but our biggest problem 
right now is due to more requests being pumped into the network than the 
network can handle, which I suspect would be a problem for almost any 
network irrespective of its routing algorithm.

We have a pretty new and IMHO innovative solution to this problem called 
"rate limiting", but we are still tinkering with it to get it right.  We 
may have just fixed a serious bug in this so the next few days will be 
instructive.  If it works I will probably be doing at talk on it at 
DEFCON next month.

Either way, I think the problems Freenet is facing right now are 
actually problems that would be faced by any data insertion and 
retrieval P2P network when people start to develop third-party clients 
that pump requests into the network in an aggressive manner.  Hopefully 
others will be able to benefit from the lessons we are learning should 
they run into similar problems (as I suspect many will).

Ian.