On Monday 21 July 2003 11:26 am, Frank v Waveren wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 09:42:41PM -0500, Tom Kaitchuck wrote:
> > 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.
>
> No, DNF means 'game over, please try again'. Having every node along
> the way branch out would put a lot more stress on the network and make
> requests take a lot longer to complete.

Really? So data requests only travel on one liner path? Any node failour is 
the end? In that case http://freenetproject.org/papers/freenet-ieee.pdf 
contains very wrong information. Including all of page 5 (diagram included).
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