On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 12:05, Frank v Waveren wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:07:30AM +0100, Toad wrote: > > > * I still hope one day the network will become healthy enough to allow > > > requests to be terminated only by loops occuring, which would be a > > > wonderful thing. > > No. We do NOT want requests to visit every node. If they do the network > > will collapse in a mass of O(n^2) requests. > What makes you say that? If the network is healthy and the majority of > nodes are specialised, intuitively this approach would be logarithmic too. > (Admittedly, having "intuitively" and complexity values in one sentence > is a recipe for trouble).
Right. Think about what happens when lots of nodes request nonexistent keys. > > Bootstrapping a network would be harder, yes, but still not impossible. -- Edward J. Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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