Re: Passing firewalls and hiding freenet traffic

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 09:50:02AM +0200, panamerica334-hX/r/[email protected] wrote:
> >or yet even better -- return a valid site! so FRED would be a small webserver capable in handling low load for the ocassions someone stumbled into the server but when auth succeeds FRED switches to freenet for this one client. this way even the too-much-telling 500 
> >could be evaded. as content for the "innocent" side the node maintainer can create their own webpage (stored within docroot) or use a default webpage saying something like "Hier entsteht eine Internetpr?senz" ("here will be a web presence shortly"), a very 
> >widespread dummy content page for newly created websites. of course that would be typical for german hosts. but perhaps the default page could be automatically adjusted to the language settings of the OS. so in japan their typical "here will be a web presence
> >shortly" can be used. i think every country has their somewhat standard placeholders for empty webservers. if there are more than one of these for a given region (e.g. america), FRED would pick one of these on first startup by random so e.g. for america there would be 
> >five standard placeholders where alice's FRED would choose one of these, and bob's FRED would choose a different one, making it difficult so see that both are freenet nodes viewed from an untrained eye.
> 
> hm... write fast, think slow :-/
> 
> problem: an "empty" server would not have a traffic of xGiB+ per month
> maybe make an HTTP-AUTH that always returns "access prohibited"?

You mean like this one?:
http://amphibian.dyndns.org/

This also hosts http://salpinx.org and http://simechoes.org. They are
only accessible if you know the hostname, since they are vhosts. And in
any case, there's loads of stuff on amphibian.dyndns.org - it's just not
linked from the homepage. E.g. http://amphibian.dyndns.org/whackysim/
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.

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