CVS now is at version 489, and this includes code to always route to a random key on the first hop, at oskar's suggestion. This hopefully will have the following benefits: a) prevents the network from splitting, sows it back together when/if it does b) if you can't find a piece of data, then retry with a higher HTL, your request will be initially routed to a different node. So you have a good chance of finding the data, if it's anywhere reachable from any of your references, by repeatedly rerequesting with a slowly escalating HTL. Costs: a) increases average path length by 1 hop b) possible impact on specialization? c) random hop is probably not the most likely to find the data, so may d) result in lower performance/more DNFs... hopefully the positive impacts will overwhelm this.
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