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 _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
