On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:05:32AM -0700, hal at finney.org wrote:
> If anything I think you should lower the maximum HTL allowed by the
> nodes (not just clients, I mean network nodes) to the 20-30 range or
> perhaps even lower. Theoretically this should make things work better.
> My feeling is that all those inserts with HTL=100 are flattening the
> search space and keeping searches from working.
>
> Like Oskar said, increasing HTL at this point means giving up on
> the Freenet search model. If Freenet won't work with HTL=20 when the
> network probably has no more than a few thousand nodes, then the whole
> idea is flawed.
Fetching at larger HTL's is often very useful. You can't impose this sort of
change without a protocol revision, i.e. not before 0.4. And requests should
have a higher maximum HTL than inserts, if that is possible.
>
> Hal
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