hal at finney.org wrote:
> Theo writes, regarding random announcement:
> > A priori it seems like it might be a problem, but in practice when I did
> > simulations it seemed to work well enough.  Certainly it's a huge
> > improvement over inform.php -- the inform-style announcement really broke
> > down over 10,000 nodes, and no tweaks I tried could get it any higher,
> > whereas the random announcement sailed up to 250,000 nodes (when I ran out
> > of memory).
> 
> Do you recall how many nodes received the random announcement when you
> simulated this large network?

The announcement message had a HTL of 10.  Every node joined using random
announcement except for the first 20.

> I thought the idea was to reverse the direction of the insert pointers
> once random announcement was in?  The rationale being two fold: first,
> that insert pointers are the way they are now because it is the only
> way to announce new nodes, so with a real announcement protocol they can
> change; and second, that it is more logical for the insert pointers to go
> the other way (towards the center rather than the edges of the network)
> so that all pointers point towards nodes that specialize in the keyspace,
> consistent with DataRequest caching.
> 
> Did you try any sims with insert pointer reversal plus a random announcement
> protocol?

That's a good point, I should try that.  I'm not going to be able to get
around to this until next week, though.

theo


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