This isn't really a problem, so much as a curious question about how
freenet works. I could go and read the code, but hopefully someone here
already knows.
A couple of days ago I installed a freenet node and, after some minor
tinkering, got it up to a seemingly workable state. Which is to say, I
could retrieve the test-key, but that was about it. I'd set up a
nodes.config from inform.php, etc, and most of my queries came back with
htls in the 20-40 range, depth about 5-10. But they almost all timed out.
I suspected I could find test-key because it was so popular, and
occasionally would get a redirect from a KSK key to a CHK key, but the CHK
always failed.
The curious part is that today, I managed to download a key with little
difficulty that I'd tried downloading yesterday with no luck (I'd tried it
several times yesterday, not just once). I tried another key from one of
the key indicies, and it timed out.. so on a hunch i waited a few hours
and then tried it again.. success :)
I'm wondering if those queries might have timed out at my node, but that
some node down the search tree, got a response; just I wasn't listening
anymore. If that node then cached the file on the basis that someone
wanted it, it would explain why a later search got a hit. Ie: Does
freenet, by virtue of it's recursive nature, slowly propigate your data
back towards your node, making it worthwhile to send a query, wait a few
hours, then query again for the same thing?
Hope that's not too convoluted :)
Tia,
Gavin Duggan
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