> 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.

Which is exactly what Freenet does. Inserts follow a similar path that requests do, so 
a node which is "close" to an inserted document will also be "close" for a request for 
that same docuement.

You must remember that Freenet is essentialy several ideas which are highly 
integerated; remove one, and the entire system falls apart, but together they do 
wonders. This also means it's really hard to know what is going on, and it usualy 
takes a new person about six months to figure it out.




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