[HN Gopher] Sprout: P2P Routing with Social Networks (2004) [pdf] ___________________________________________________________________ Sprout: P2P Routing with Social Networks (2004) [pdf] Author : ctoth Score : 18 points Date : 2021-09-14 20:29 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (ilpubs.stanford.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (ilpubs.stanford.edu) | 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: | Stanford appears to still use a technique I like to use on the | LANs I control. | | Putting different sites on different ports, alleviating need for | hostnames. | | Even on the internet, ports over 49151 are not protocol-specific; | they are not assigned by IANA^1 | | For example, on port 8090 | | http://171.64.75.19:8090/view/year/ | | and on port 8091 | | http://171.64.75.19:8091 | | http is noticeably faster than https. | | Stanford is still providing http in addition to https. | | Here, the http url has been submitted to HN, not the https one. | | 1. https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port- | numbers/... | ctoth wrote: | I was reading about Kademlia and got to wondering what other | distance metrics people had implemented other than xor. Turns out | there's geographic routing[0], social routing, and all sorts of | fun stuff. Very interesting field. | | I also was amused to see what they considered social networks in | 2004. | | [0]: | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231183253_GeoKad_A_... | blamestross wrote: | I literally did my PhD on this topic. You can make any distance | metric with a triangle inequality work. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-09-14 23:01 UTC)