On July 21, 2003 04:22 pm, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 08:50:33PM +0100, Toad wrote: > > Umm, no. Random first hop was introduced to avoid the network forking... > > anyway, how would this improve getting DBRs? > > Ah yes, I was trying to remember why that was introduced. Of course, > the whole "network forking" danger was purely theoretical, and I never > really thought that it was likely to happen in a real-world network. It > has certainly never been observed in practice or in simulation.
When playing with the CP code before I started with NG I tried disabling this. The node ended up ignoring most of the nodes. Think this is needed until the node _really_ know the network; otherwise it will tend to ignore many nodes. IMHO it also help hide the id of the sender since the same key will not always go to the same node... I have used freenet/support/sort/QuickSelector.java to give the same sort of functionality in NG. Just how random that first node is can easily be controlled in this class. Ed _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
