Definition of P2P (was Feinstein)

David A. Ulevitch davidu at everydns.net
Tue Aug 31 00:32:02 UTC 2004



<quote who="Bora Akyol">
>
> Sorry, was it possible to search for a file from > millions of storage
> nodes
> in IRC?

Yes, not that millions of storage nodes were connected...

Napster was more or less a glorified version of IRC w/DCC, that's why it
was centralized for searching.

Anyways, we all know the biggest P2P bit movers are the routers...

-davidu

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