[mnet-devel] needed: bootpage servers
Artimage
artimage at shockwave.concernd.com
Tue Oct 21 21:18:10 BST 2003
http://www.cryptnet.info/bootpage.html
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Zooko Journeyman wrote:
>
> A bootpage is a very simple text file. The current one looks like this:
>
> ------- begin included bootpage
> BROKER_VERSION_STR: 0.6.2.232-STABLE
> MULTI_ROOT_ID_TRACKER_CONTACT_INFO: {'connection strategies': {'0': {'lowerstrategy': {'IP address': '64.231.253.209', 'port number': '21387', 'comm strat sequence num': 1, 'comm strategy type': 'TCP'}, 'pubkey': {'key header': {'usage': 'only for communication security', 'type': 'public', 'cryptosystem': 'RSA'}, 'key values': {'public modulus': 'rWU0Cck-c9Josixhb5EcImNzEs_kU6xjKZUJQmWrryr3ukPv1So8rL7hgZoUW3BhpwPxlkdIyZuCw8Hxt5GLGwyC0aUnQ-e9V3uze1cgZiihajZrE7auUSmwR18DhaeiTyTrrhbhiZUc_30U3e9C_6IgMnIKFhy5uQO38g6arUM', 'public exponent': '3'}}, 'comm strat sequence num': 1, 'comm strategy type': 'crypto'}}}
> ------- end included bootpage
>
> We need at least three people to run HTTP servers and serve up this page in
> response to an HTTP request. You can have it listen on any port you like --
> port 80 or a different port, and the URL can be anything you like -- IP
> address or DNS name, and whatever path and file name you want.
>
> The load is expected to be fairly small -- every Mnet node loads the bootpage
> from every bootpage server once every 8 hours or so.
>
> Every so often the contents of the bootpage changes. Hopefully we'll add
> three new metatrackers and remove the one that is currently listed (I'm
> running that one on my desktop machine and my DSL line). Occasionally we'll
> bump the "BROKER_VERSION_STR" so as to alert users that a new version is
> recommended.
>
> Neither of those changes have to be handled right away by every bootpage
> operator. If at least one bootpage is reachable by an Mnet node, and that
> bootpage contains the contact info for at least one working metatracker, then
> everything works.
>
> That's why we want three metatrackers and at least three bootpage operators --
> so that the servers and their operators can be less than perfectly reliable
> while the network itself remains perfectly reliable.
>
> If you want to run a bootpage, we're ready right now for you to set one up.
> Copy the text of the bootpage above, set up your HTTP server, and post to
> mnet-devel saying which URL we should use.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Zooko
>
>
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