You claim that a maximum of 100 nodes can be searched on any query. So if a new node inserts a new data, and another new node requests that data, which has never been requested before, there is only %0.1 chance that the request will succeed on a 1,000,000 node freenet. That is "unacceptable".
Let's make something clear: the routing technique used in freenet (for 0.3; 0.4 is not documented) is only a heuristic fucntion that tries to "guess" where to look for data. This will work good ONLY IF the data is moved to a location it can easily be found. Otherwise, freenet routing will only work for "fameous data", for regular data it is a blind BFS which is pruned TOO EARLY. Can Ian comment on this? I hope he knows much better. I also hope there is already an "advertising" algorithm in freenet. Otherwise what I said is true. > Yes. Freenet doesn't query every single node, just > the ones that are most likely to have the info. > Furthermore, the maximum number of nodes your > request is allowed to pass through is limited by the > Hops To Live (HTL) value. Nodes will default to > setting the HTL value to 100 if it sees an HTL > higher then that. ===== 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
