Simple question. How does client connect to a p2p system if it does not know any already connected nodes? Is it event possible? Like in torrent magnet links, or pastry?
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Are there any known methods of finding peers without using a dedicated central server?  ie: If I have peers which are disconnecting and reconnecting to the internet but getting a new IP address each time, and I want to connect to them without setting up a dedicated server to register with.  I was thinking about using peers email address to send a manifest of connected peers periodically, with some sort of timecode, negating the need for a dedicated server.  This would be a fallback if none of the peers could be connected to after trying all the previously known peer addresses.  But existing models of finding peers would be preferable.
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I'm planning to make an ubuntu server (with load balancing to a few offstage computers) and have thin clients connect to it.  Unfortunately, I don't know how to make a thin client, or the setup involved.  I really like virtualization and servers and stuff like that.  Basically, I'd have a resource pool of computers sitting underneath a desk and I could have another computer, somewhere else that runs off of it...  I'm not sure if I'm getting the concept right.
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Is it possible to set up a server to mirror a distro's repository, but only download/store requested upgrades or new packages rather than download them all?  So all computers on the LAN can connect to this server for all upgrades so they only have to be downloaded once.  I've looked at apt-mirror but that seems to download everything.
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Is there a way to avoid anonymous users can see nodes of a content type, like a block or a view?  I can control the access with a view, but if I know the link for a node, I can  see it without first logging in.
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If there is a limit on the number of ports one machine can have and a socket can only bind to an unused port number, how do servers experiencing extremely high amounts (more than the max port number) of requests handle this? Is it just done by making the system distributed, i.e., many servers on many machines?
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Where do I find the client id and client secret of an existing connected app? The documentation talks about this information being provided when creating a new app, but what if my app already exists? I can't find this info.
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In a client-server game architecture, what are the possible ways to verify that the client has not modified things like gfx assets or client side scripts?  Obviously no solution is perfect, but I would love to hear some ideas.  I am thinking something like an hash on all the files in the resources directory. Does that sound feasible?
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Is there a way to block all normal ftp traffic, and only allow the sftp protocol in sftp?  edit:  sorry my bad!  for secure ftp i must use the ftpes protocol...
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Cannot find "connect to server" in 11.04, looks like unity doesn't have it. Is there other very similar way to connect to another Ubuntu computer via SSH? (not in terminal)
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I am new to Terraria, and I want to play with my friend. But for some reason, it says 'connecting' for a very long time. I have his IP, and his port, but it will not work.
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How can I setup a share on a client computer in a Windows 2012 Essentials domain?  I have 2 PCs logged into this domain, and I would like to share computer A's documents with computer B.  Is there a way to do this?
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I connect to the internet through a VPN provider along with other precautions in order to ensure privacy (against traffic analysis by agencies of a repressive government). I currently use  to configure and establish the VPN connection. Tunnelblick does not allow automatically connecting to the provider at or before login so I need to connect manually each time, and sometimes the connection is lost.  I need any and all traffic to go through the VPN connection at all times; whenever the VPN isn't connectable for whatever reason, I want the fallback to be no connection. I need to ensure   that OS X does not connect to the internet on my regular internet connection, or at all, during boot (until the login screen, for time synchronization and other possible "call home" stuff etc.). What services, if any, try to do this, and how can I practically analyze and change what's going on with networking during boot? Is there a way to connect to VPN earlier than right after login? that if my VPN connection is temporarily lost, applications do not continue to communicate over my regular unencrypted connection.    I basically want the system to act as if the network connection is lost altogether if the VPN connection fails, but currently they just continue to work as if nothing happened. What can I do to my system so that once a VPN is established, all traffic can only flow through that connection and no traffic can flow if the connection drops?
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I'm doing some computer network homework and I'm supposed to develop some sort of Peer to Peer file sharing software, and when I wanna test it I need to run a few (5) instances on my linux/Ubuntu 11.10 . which means each one need to has a unique IP address. I heard I can do that but I dunno how. how can I have many IP addresses on a single computer? thanks
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Can anyone help me configure Transmission to download torrent files behind a proxy?  I have http_proxy set in my .bashrc.
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Is there any application that allows connecting via SFTP using private keys rather than password?   I know that I can do that via Nautilus, but I would prefer some standalone application.
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Wanting to deploy my project on different servers I would prefer to be able to specify a connect string using a relative path. I can't seem to get that to work and want to know if there is some trick to it...?
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I can't connect to  or  &mdash; the initial connection times out every time. I check this every week, and it worked fine last time, so it must be something pretty recent. (Further HTTPS deployment?)