On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:18:06PM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: > 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.
It gets cached too. Probabilistically, of course. > > -- > Tracy Reed > http://ultraviolet.org > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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