Masataka Ohta wrote:
Is it a client server app or a P2P app?
What a total ignorance of the P2P world.
It appears that some education is needed for our candid friend here.
First, a little history. "THE" P2P app, the original Napster, was
shutdown because of its reliance on centralized servers.
Besides, many other P2P apps use servers as well:
- Threedegrees uses MSN messenger's servers.
- Napster offspring such as opennap and edonkey have decentralized the
servers; however the motive behind this was to make them moving targets
operated by different entities in different countries, making the whole
server mesh virtually impossible to be shut down by legal action. At
this very moment the top 6 servers in the edonkey network have between
100,000 and 220,000 simultaneous connections each and account for more
than half of the 1.5M total users on the system.
- On-line games have centralized lobbies where players meet before they
play; there are Quake servers.
- SIP outfits all have centralized registering servers; the first things
to configure on a SIP phone are its own SIP number and the address of
the SIP server.
So yes, P2P usually means server, too.
Michel.