On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:30:16PM -0400, Andrew Rodland wrote: > Please don't let's forget that random first hop is the only thing that > makes retrying of any use after we reach HTL=25 and want to keep trying, > because of ftable. And I think that people will agree with me, that as > it stands it frequently _does_ pay off to try HTL=25 HTL=26 HTL=27 until > you get something, because the increasing HTLs will bypass ftable on > your node, and random first hop will send it off in a direction that > might not have an ftable entry (or at least, at a lower HTL). It > frequently manages to get a document even after we've failed out at 25.
That may be true, although one would hope that with NG, routing will be so much smarter that 99% of the time, a DNF will indicate that the data really isn't in the network </optimism> Ian. -- Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Founder, Locutus http://locut.us/ Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/
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