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I read through some of the high level docs, but can someone simply explain how a user discovers other nodes in the network? I started reading the netDB docs [0]
by seibelj 10y ago
I read through some of the high level docs, but can someone simply explain how a user discovers other nodes in the network? I started reading the netDB docs [0] but it was pretty dense.
[0] https://geti2p.net/en/docs/how/network-database https://geti2p.net/en/docs/how/network-database
- TaroAnami 10y agoI entered here for the same question. I offer one million internet points to whoever answers this. Thank you!
- thatcat 10y agoFrom the Bootstrapping section of the link you provided.. >volunteers publish their netDb directories (or a subset) on the regular (non-i2p) network, and the URLs of these directories are hardcoded in I2P. When the router starts up for the first time, it automatically fetches from one of these URLs, selected at random.
- seibelj 10y agoOK, so you put your IP address into several centralized DB's on the regular internet, then when I2P starts it randomly fetches from one of those repositories.
- thatcat 10y agoYea, tor basically does the same thing.
- Natanael_L 10y agoThe only not totally implausible alternative is broadcasting addresses over amateur radio
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