[OpenDHT-Users] OpenDHT is back up

[Sean Rhea]

Max,

You're right.  A DHT should, in theory, not have any central point of
failure.  But I the machines on which OpenDHT runs are all part of
PlanetLab, and PlanetLab has one central account database.  When they
removed me from their database (accidentally), I lost my accounts on
all their machines, and OpenDHT went down.

Ideally, OpenDHT would run on machines provided by volunteers, or at
least a bunch of different organizations.  But no one has solved the
problem of dealing with malicious nodes in a DHT yet, so that wouldn't
really protect us from everything.  One single malicious node could
still do a lot of damage in OpenDHT.

Sean



On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:26 AM, M. Peterson
<petersonmaxx at googlemail.com> wrote:
> did not understand that, what is PL central?
> and why is one bug cuasing 220 nodes dead?
> and why is repairing that brining 200 nodes back?
>
> That is not good, to relay on central authorities...
>
> Thanks for a feedback max
>
>
> On 8/6/08, Sean Rhea <sean.c.rhea at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> PL central expired my slice, and due to some software bug, failed to
>> send me an email warning first.  They've reinstated it, and now
>> OpenDHT is back up to 220 or so nodes.
>>
>> Sorry for the inconvenience,
>> Sean
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>> burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that's got to
>> change." -- Al Gore
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burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that's got to
change." -- Al Gore