On Sunday 03 August 2003 04:16 pm, Gabriel K wrote:
> I'm sorry if it sounded like I thought there was a distinction. In FreeNet
> there is no such distinction, true.
> However, if you DO have such a distinction, one mechanism to search, and
> one to request, then it is much easier to set the number of proxies.
AFAIK, this would require a total rewrite of much of the Freenet protocol.
> You mean because the file is split up in chunks and distributed in the
> network? Yeah that's true, and indeed very good.
> However it requires for the share to be uploaded... and as I said before,
> uploading 60GB data is not so much fun :)
Well you're going to have to do it SOMETIME.
> Btw, I read in some paper, think it was ACHORD or CHORD, that a thing about
> freeNet is that you aren't guaranteed to find the data you are looking for
> if it exists? Because you have to have a TTL on the request to avoid
> infinite looping problems? True or false? (I read about freeNet some time
> ago..)
Yes, there is a TTL (we call it HTL: Hops To Live). It's common to not find
data that is there the first time, but keep trying and you will. Next
Generation Routing, which is currently in development, should greatly improve
data-finding ability.
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