You're forgetting the Hops To Live (HTL) value. A request or insert will never progress beyond the given HTL.
> If there is a consistent routing and advertising > mechanism, every node will forward the query to "at > most one node". > > For every key, the node will select the appropriate > one from its neighbours. It knows that asking a second > one will be redundant, since if the key existed the > first one must have known it. > > The current internet mechanism is also like this. If > you want to connect to A from B your PC will know that > A is not in its local network, so it will forward the > query to one of its routers, C. It will never ask a > peer D to route the packet for it even though D can > also route that packet (using C) to A. > > > I am not quite sure how you think routing is going > > to help > > with bad queries? > > If you are wishing to guarrenty that the document is > > returned > > if it is anywhere within freenet then you much > > search all of > > the nodes anyway, regardless of routing. > > If that is not the case then nodes can just discard > > messages > > as they reach their bandwidth limits (I seem to > > remember reading > > that this is the case now), and you get a best > > effort result. > > > > I am wondering however how the hops-to-live is > > affected when the > > search via the "best" node fails, and the node > > restarts the query > > on the second best. Is it the same as for the > > original search, > > decremented by 1, or what? I have read everything I > > could find > > and not found this. > > > ===== > Sukru Tikves, > Hacettepe University > Computer Engineering > Department, Ankara > > http://piskare.cjb.net > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. > http://phone.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > freenet-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech > ----------------------------------------------- Runbox Mail Manager - www.runbox.com Online email application _______________________________________________ freenet-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/tech
