On July 22, 2003 08:41 pm, Ian Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:30:16PM -0400, Andrew Rodland wrote:
> > Please don't let's forget that random first hop is the only thing that
> > makes retrying of any use after we reach HTL=25 and want to keep trying,
> > because of ftable. And I think that people will agree with me, that as
> > it stands it frequently _does_ pay off to try HTL=25 HTL=26 HTL=27 until
> > you get something, because the increasing HTLs will bypass ftable on
> > your node, and random first hop will send it off in a direction that
> > might not have an ftable entry (or at least, at a lower HTL). It
> > frequently manages to get a document even after we've failed out at 25.
>
> That may be true, although one would hope that with NG, routing will be
> so much smarter that 99% of the time, a DNF will indicate that the data
> really isn't in the network </optimism>

We do not need to worry much about this _now_.  We can easily tune how
'random' the first hop is using QuickSelector.java

Ed
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