Tom Kaitchuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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).
The "backing out of dead ends" illustrated in that picture is not DNF. The network will back out on RNFs (Route Not Found); when a node doesn't have anywhere to send a request to. But as long as there's somewhere to forward the request, it'll travel in a linear path. Node failure is not indicated by DNF, a request running out of HTL without finding data makes a DNF. Thelema -- E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raabu and Piisu GPG 1024D/36352AAB fpr:756D F615 B4F3 BFFC 02C7 84B7 D8D7 6ECE 3635 2AAB _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
