a network far away, dns solutions, and google summer of code.

[Ken]

Arthur,

I have forwarded this email on to some people that might be able to
provide mentorship for a summer of code project related to mesh
networking.

-Ken

On 4/24/06, ARTHUR WOLF <wolf.arthur at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> First of all excuse me for my bad english.
>
> Ok, so. Here in Belgium, we have a wireless mesh network, called "Citizen
> Network" (
> http://www.reseaucitoyen.be/wiki/index.php/Accueil ), wich
> looks lots like urs in Seattle.
> We have about 50 nodes, with almost 20 nodes 24h/24 connected, and some
> little splitted networks of about 2 or 3 nodes around. (
> http://arthur.wolf.free.fr for a little map ).
> We use OLSR for routing, Ad-Hoc mode, and we are beginning to use 5Ghz.
> The project goals and philosophy, translated in ensglish, is in fact ecactly
> just the same as whats written on Seattle Wireless frontpage.
> So this was to introduce the network.
>
> One of the long time problem here is domain name resolution.
> Having one centralized DNS server is against the philosophy of the project
> in wich no node can be more important than another node.
>
> So i'm actually coding a Peer 2 peer DNS system, with dns server sharing
> hosts information, and a simple interface for poeple to modify their own
> domain name etc ...
>
> Another long time problem was IP allocation.
> As we dont want any ip list centralised somewhere , we here use ips
> calculated on the last 3 numbers of the Mac Adress ( 00:11:22:33:44:55
> becomes 10.3.4.5 ) , but even with this system, we can have ip collisions (
> hyppotetically )
> So with the project of p2p dns, i'm adding a dhcp server provinding adresses
> calculated from the macadress, but verifying first it's not already in use,
> and always gining an interface the same ip.
>
> A small web interface is to be added to the project too, to manage
> configuration ( both peer and client ), and to be used as a portal.
> The whole project is coded in Perl, and will be ported on Linux, Windows,
> OpenWRt, and maybe BSD. ( you can find a ( not up to date ) page describing
> a little of the project at
> http://www.reseaucitoyen.be/wiki/index.php/Acdc ( will be
> soon translated ) )
>
> Ok, so what i'm here to ask you poeple for, is Google Summer of Code (
> http://code.google.com/soc/ ).
> As i'm a student, i want to participate in it, but cant find any Mentor
> organisation searching for things like my project.
> Poeple here in Belgium dont want to do it cause of philosophical problems (
> you must choose someone to represent the project ).
>
> If you are interrest in my project, and if u see no problem with choosing
> someone to represent ur project at GSoC, it would be nice to do it :)
> Inscriptions closes on May 1, so please answer quicly if you are
> interrested.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Arthur.
>
> ( ps : of course the whole thing is free, and btw earns 500$ to the
> mentoring organisation in case of success ).
>
>
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Ken Caruso
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