On Friday 22 February 2008 17:07, Pete Heist wrote: > I'm looking for a basic explanation of how the swapping of the locations of > two nodes works (details aside, as it seems the implementation may still be > in flux?) > > I'm confused as to how nodes can swap locations in the network without > either changing the nodes they're connected to or changing their IDs (which > would be a security problem in the first case or a routing complication in > the second)...but I may just have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the > 0.7 routing works...
A node's "location" is simply a number between 0 and 1. We route requests towards the location closest to the content we are trying to find. Does that clarify things a bit? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20080223/41870d00/attachment.pgp>
