> -----Original Message----- > From: "Timm Murray" <hardburn at runbox.com> > Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:31:46 GMT > To: devl at freenetproject.org > Subject: Re:[freenet-devl] Geographical routing > > I had a revelation last night: Gegraphical routing is a Bad Idea > (tm). The most important part of Freenet's routing is looking for > data where it is likely to be found. Favoring routes to machines > which are physically close to you (or at least on the same subnet) > is like the man who drops his keys in a dark corner, but looks for > them by the lamp because the light is better there.
Not so. Requesting it from a local node (i.e. < 10 ms ping) with a low HTL results in no impact on the network except resulting in higher response times for data that's already been transfered. Statistically, you are correct -- the nodes on the same subnet are less likely to have the data. Unless, of course, its already in their datastore, saving an otherwise costly trip to the outside. In any case, I'm not going to push implementing this for a while, but I will defend my position. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
