Recently I inserted a file at HTL 20 into one of my nodes, and had it
DNF on the other at HTL 25. For two different files. This worked in the
past, with lower HTLs. Now, the interesting part is that I have three
nodes, and it appears that hammering all the nodes other than the one I
inserted the files into for all the files improves fetchability over
time... maybe fishtools etc should include an option to fetch from extra
nodes? The modified loop:
Insert files.
For each file:
 if fetchable on all nodes, continue to next file
 for each extra node, (in parallel?):
  try to fetch at current HTL
  if RNF, retry with same options
  if DNF, and HTL < max HTL, increase HTL and retry
 done
 repeat
done

Eventually the files should become available... and the network will
forge new links to make this happen. The only cost is time and load...
-- 
Matthew Toseland
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Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker.
Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/11/02.
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