Open Source Applications Foundation

[Dev] Existing p2p systems for getting offline node back up to date?

Wes Felter Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:47:09 -0600


on 11/13/02 9:19 PM, Paul Snively at psnively@earthlink.net wrote:

> On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 10:06  AM, Ray Ryan wrote:
> 
>> If Spread doesn't support this kind of thing (catching up on messages
>> delivered while offline, or otherwise getting back in sync), what > does?
>> 
> It's not horribly difficult to do at a higher level once you have group
> membership event notification.

Since you like the 100% solutions, consider the case where at most one
member of the group is online at any moment. I think this motivates P2P over
SMTP.

Wes Felter - wesley@felter.org - http://felter.org/wesley/