[p2p-hackers] Learning how to build a P2P system

[David L. Oppenheimer]

And if your tastes are more in the structured P2P camp than unstructured,
check out UsenetDHT
http://project-iris.net/irisbib/papers/usenetdht:iptps04/paper.pdf

David 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: p2p-hackers-bounces at zgp.org 
> [mailto:p2p-hackers-bounces at zgp.org] On Behalf Of Jim Dixon
> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 11:28 AM
> To: Ian Wiles; Peer-to-peer development.
> Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] Learning how to build a P2P system
> 
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Ian Wiles wrote:
> 
> > I should also probably give a brief explanation of the 
> system I'd like
> > to develop. Basically it's a system to pass around text 
> messages in a
> > forum/usenet type of setup. However I would like the news 
> spool to be
> > distributed across all nodes, presumably this would require 
> some sort of
> > mirroring/backup as well as each node goes offline.
> 
> You do understand that Usenet News _is_ a p2p system, right?  One that
> works very well, despite immense and rapidly fluctuating loads, the
> sporadic loss of peers, legal threats, hordes of utterly 
> clueless users,
> and sometimes uhm less clueful sys admins.
> 
> Source code freely available.  See for example
> http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/innd
> 
> The design is ancient and barbaric, but it works.
> 
> >                                                   This is 
> why I would
> > like to find some information on the techniques used, as 
> I'm sure they'd
> > be better than the solutions I would come up with. I would 
> like to do
> > this using Java as it's the language I'm most familiar with at the
> > moment.
> 
> Java is a practical tool for this sort of project.
> 
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