On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 12:38:50PM -0700, Sukru Tikves wrote:
> 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.

That's exactly what happens. An inserted file is routed in 
the same way as a request for that file, using the same 
heuristic. Thus a new file is cached on the nodes that are 
likely to receive requests for it, *before* it has ever been 
requested.


Michael

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