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How are Gnutella ultrapeers centralized? Nodes self-promote themselves to ultrapeers if they meet uptime and resource availability requirements. It's a mechan
by KMag 3y ago
How are Gnutella ultrapeers centralized? Nodes self-promote themselves to ultrapeers if they meet uptime and resource availability requirements.
It's a mechanism to allow low-spec'd peers to participate without getting crushed with traffic, and also an optimization to reduce churn in the routing tables. The ultrapeers are just long-uptime regular peers.