On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:46:40PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > > NGRouting will only favor open connections over closed connections if > > > the price of going with a sub-optimal open connection reference is lower > > > than that of going with the optimal non-open connection reference, and > > > if this is the case, then NGRouting is perfectly correct in its > > > decision. If the open-connection node gets overloaded then it will > > > no-longer make sense to route via that node, and NGrouting will route > > > elsewhere. You can't argue with simple market economics, and that is > > > what NGrouting is. > > > > I'm not going to even try to argue with this. I'm just going to ignore > > you. > > Wow - convincing counter-argument there Matthew, Socrates would have > been proud!
Opening a connection to the other node might benefit us in the long run, but if all our connections are occupied talking to the node that we happened already to be talking to, we get into a degenerate, dangerous situation. Degenerate markets are a concept that should be familiar to any human being living in the 21st century. > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ > Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ > Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/ -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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