On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 11:45:19PM -0400, Andrew Rodland spake thusly: > What this is, is an idea for decreasing the number of nodes that data passes > through on freenet, and so also freenet's bandwidth usage. It would not be a > compatible change, but it's just an idea. :)
There is a very good reason for passing through so many nodes. It makes the requester and the source of the data harder to track down. Shortcutting as you propose it would reveal the identify of the requesting node which totally defeats what freenet is all about. Plus returning the data back along the same path helps propagate good routing info and lets the nodes along the path know that the data was found so they can route similar requests back along this path. Ideally we want the data to pass through as many nodes as possible with the user still getting his result in a reasonable amount of time. -- Tracy Reed http://ultraviolet.org
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