International Workshop on Dependable and Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Systems, IEEE, Turku, Finland (2008)
Abstract:
In this paper, we present the first heuristic for fully distributed
bootstrapping of peer-to-peer networks. Our heuristic generates a
stream of promising IP addresses to be probed as entry points. This
stream is generated using statistical profiles using the IP ranges of
start-of-authorities (SOAs) in the domain name system (DNS). We
present experimental results demonstrating that with this approach it
is efficient and practical to bootstrap Gnutella-sized peer-to-peer
networks - without the need for centralized services or the public
exposure of end-user's private IP addresses.
