Load Balancing

[LinuxinaBit]

Theoretically, could any kind of load balancing be done for something like a NomadNet page?
From what I can tell there isn't a formally defined way to do that, but I would like to know if there is something I'm missing and/or if it is even possible.

[Ruulul]

Reticulum/LXMF works only with messages transmitted from a peer to another

But... an application could handle some content based addressing and query for the closest peer that has that content online...

In fact I might take a look in how to make Hypercore be able to use Reticulum addresses soon-ish

[faragher]

The simplest solution is a 303 style redirect. "Hey, I want Foo!" "Resource is at NewAddy:/pages/Foo" This maintains e2ee and doesn't obfuscate the source of the data. It also leverages the distributed network to not keep running over a single path when the servers are significantly separated. I believe that addresses the intent of load balancing?

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[LinuxinaBit]

Ah, I guess that works. 😅
I just figured people would be confused when the address changed.
Obviously there isn't a way to actually do this yet, but I'm sure somebody will make it happen eventually :)

[faragher]

Until there's a human-friendly name, I don't think most people will notice a changed hash. Although it will likely be normalized at some point. I mean, most websites these days have dozens if not thousands of cross-site images and scripts, so maybe it's better when people notice a hand-off.

[zirpu]

Why do you need load balancing? What problem does that solve?

[faragher]

The CDNs for *NIX repos is a pretty good use case. If you mirror repositories, then they don't need to be high-availability the way a single system would be. There's still an issue if you only have a single base mirror, but even if you have three known endpoints pointing to dozens of transient mirrors, you get extremely robust availability.