Hi. I want to know how the closest node is chosen from the routing table. and how it is implemented....the overlay structure and network topology......the wiki doesnt seem to give enough details... i get the basic idea.....but i want finer implementation details It'd be gr8 if i could get some dev notes etc....to help me understand
Srivatsan (Kryptos) On 5/18/07, Volodya <Volodya at whengendarmesleeps.org> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Srivatsan Ravi wrote: > > I want to know how key based routing using DHT works in Freenet?Could i > > get some detailed docs regarding it > > Thanks > > Kryptos23 > > (Srivatsan) > > It's not really clear what you are asking, but i'll try to answer. > > Key has 2 parts, routing key and decryption key; only routing key is used > for routing > purposes. When your node requests the key it looks for the closest > location within > connections. Basically each key "wants" to be in a particular location. If > the best choice > is closer than the node that you are running than HTL is decremented, if > it's worse it's > restarted from the max (i think it's 10)... > > There must be more stuff going on, but i'm not quite sure what it is. > > - Volodya > > - -- > http://freedom.libsyn.com/ Voice of Freedom, Radical Podcast > http://freeselfdefence.info/ Self-defence wiki > http://www.kingstonstudents.org/ Kingston University students' forum > > "None of us are free until all of us are free." ~ Mihail Bakunin > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGTXiDuWy2EFICg+0RAi+NAJ9VoJ3T5rPuj40Sx6JpOGBjrn9hlACeOQcu > Sh2upq3v8Q4kRyDQVmOga7E= > =frme > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > Support at freenetproject.org > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:support-request at freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20070518/8b44c55a/attachment.html>
