On Sunday 20 July 2003 08:14 pm, Ian Clarke wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 07:50:45PM -0500, Tom Kaitchuck wrote:
> > Why is this true? If we can't get the data we want from a node, and then
> > ask another and do get it, then add the total time to the first nodes
> > time. If we don't find it somewhere else, it's fair to assume that data
> > does not exist in the network within (whatever the htl was) hops of us.
> > So add it to the failure table, and don't change anybody's routing
> > information.
>
> We could do that - certainly - but I don't think we want to be in the
> business of automatic re-retrieval above the client layer - the client
> should make that decision.

Huh? re-retrieval? Even if we are not the originator of a request and one node 
returns Data not found, we try another, correct? Well if it finds the data, 
then the data obviously exists.
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