> What you say below is "advertising". OK, I guess I didn't understand what you ment by "advertising".
> Do you mean, for > every insert the data is replicated to HTL (100) > hosts? BTW--100 is the absolute maximum most (all?) nodes will allow. Most clients default to inserting at 20-30 HTL. > Than this is advertising and it will have a > better finding ratio (much better than %0.1, see my > previuos reply). > > But there is still chance that a new node will not be > able to locate a newly inserted data from another new > node. Only if a new node is connected ONLY to another new node, and even then the request will work fine the moment it hits a not-so-new node. Yes, we are quite aware that long-running, well-connected nodes are better for finding things on Freenet, but things are not THAT horrible for new nodes. > > > There is no need for "key advertisement", as each > > node will figure out a value of the key being > > searched for. It then looks through a list of nodes > > (in which nodes are paired up with a key value that > > they had previously inserted or requested) and then > > finds the node containing a key value which is > > closest to the key value being searched for. A > > similar process goes on during insertion (it inserts > > to the node with the closest key value). > > > > BTW--Ian Clark already used this as a thesis. > > > > ===== > 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
