On Friday 29 August 2003 08:30 pm, Toad wrote: > 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.
I already mentioned that in the original post. Caching is not really a problem. Routing appears to be, though.
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