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

[ARTHUR WOLF]

Thanks a lot.
Hope they'll be interrested.


2006/4/25, Ken <ken at ipl31.net>:
>
> 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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