[AardWorks] Host/users discovery

Cees De Groot cdegroot at gmail.com
Wed Oct 5 13:14:31 UTC 2005


Noury Bouraqadi wrote:
> But, how the first peer is discovered in AardWorks applications?

There are two easy possibilities:
- Multicast for LAN-based discovery, well-documented in the Jini specs;
- Nodes collaborate to put bootstrap lists into well-known places
(used by Gnutella, IIRC)..
AardWorks Gossip, being mostly internet-oriented, currently uses the
latter one - every x seconds the list of known peers is posted to a
well-known URL, and a node that doesn't know about any peers can fetch
that list to seed its data.

Adding Multicast-based discovery would be relatively easy, though.



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