On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:03:06PM -0700, Mr. Bad wrote:
> Ugh. Didn't Hal Finney do some math that said after around 30-40
> increasing the HTL is pretty much moot?

In my personal experience, a HTL of 100 is advantageous.

> It seems that if we make the DEFAULT 100, we're going to be getting
> lots of "flying dutchman" requests hogging up processors and
> bandwidth, when in fact whatever they're looking for is pretty much
> unfindable.

Perhaps, however OTOH if a HTL100 request can find a piece of
information and spread it, then it will save the network the burden of
several requests at less than 100 which max out failing to find the
data.  

To put it another way, while making the default 100 increases the burden
of failed requests, it will also reduce the number of failed requests,
AND make a better user-experience for all.

Ian.
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