But then how come the routing is done by choosing the node whose 
location offers shortest distance to the key?

Martin Scheffler wrote:
> Am Freitag, 28. August 2009 08:48:09 schrieb Michael Yip:
>   
>> Just a simple question:
>>
>> Does it mean that the key would be closest to the location of the data
>> source node?
>>
>> ...
>>     
>
> no, the key is determined by the content.
> the routing tries to push the data into the right direction where it can be 
> found later.
> all the keys that the source node inserts are going different ways.
> if your node is neighbour of the source node you will only see some keys from 
> the insert which are in your keyspace.
> and even when your "cancer nodes" dominate the routing table of the source 
> node, you can't know the content until you have the URI to access it.
>
> good byte
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