"Edward J. Huff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 21:40, Ken Corson wrote: > > Edward J. Huff wrote: > Thanks for the confidence, but I don't know everything. I took > the guy you corrected as being right because I got behind reading > this list and thought that no one corrected _his_ mistake. But > since Toad and Ian replied to your message and didn't correct it, > you may well be right. But I saw other exchanges which make > much more sense if QR's do go all the way back. > QRs are only propogated back one node; that node then looks up the next best place to route the request and tries again. QRs do *not* propogate all the way back like DNFs.
> Assuming that the immediate predecessor can retry, then one QR > is not a disaster. But if HTL was 25, and you are the 24th > node, and QR goes all the way back, that means that 22 nodes > accepted the query, routed it, and will process the QR, all > for nothing. Especially if you knew where to send it and > the next node has the data. Can someone who knows for sure > comment? > I know for sure; the 24th node will retry until it finds a node to accept the query. > So, does a QR go all the way back to the original requester > before retry, or not? Nope, only one hop. Thelema -- E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raabu and Piisu GPG 1024D/36352AAB fpr:756D F615 B4F3 BFFC 02C7 84B7 D8D7 6ECE 3635 2AAB _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
