On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:26:12AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > 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.
I don't get it. Why can't you just route to a random key? That should take into account all routing data effectively. -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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