On Monday 09 December 2002 11:48 pm, Edgar Friendly wrote: > Andrew Rodland <arodland at noln.com> writes: > > On Monday 09 December 2002 10:21 pm, The FLOG Index wrote: > > > transient node, if they participate in sneaker net their node will be > > > full of all kinds of stuff they never requested. > > The problem is that this isn't a good thing. Unless the network knows > to look on your node for some content, or it's coincidentally next to > some keyspace that your node is authoritative on, that content might > as well not be in your store. This is the same problem with any kind > of permenancy for datastores; if the references to the data don't > correspond to where the data is, the data is useless.
Okay, now that I've calmed down, back to this point, since you mentioned it. This isn't really all that true. All you have to be is in the same general direction. And the closer you are to the requester, the less close you have to be to the "home" of the data to have a chance of being hit. :) Of course, if you take a huge import from CD and it randomizes your store, then you're not just shuffling up routing, you're completely screwing it, but that's not what we're talking about either. Just think of it as a way to sprinkle information around some, and to prevent 'hyperspecialization' (which can happen if specialization is mostly working, but reliability is low enough that the whole network isn't always reachable from any one point). Or just think of it as a bunch of 'white holes' in the routing space of freenet. Anyway, think it through, and I think you'll find it not half as bad as you're saying. :) _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
