On October 27, 2003 11:22 am, Edgar Friendly wrote: > Ed Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Note that just because you have your DS with lots of 'A's in it does not > > mean your node is specialized on 'A'. > > I agree with this completely, and hope more people understand this point. > > > What it should do it influence it to specialize > > near 'A' (now that routing is 'fixed'). > > well, sorta... really, it shouldn't matter what's in your store. > > > Specialization is not only what is in your DS but, also what keys your > > node can find quickly. If you have 5% of all the 'A' keys but you node > > knows little about routing to other nodes that have 'A' the rest of the > > network will not see you as specialized. > > > > Ed > > This last paragraph is not quite true. The network doesn't and can't > know what's in your store or routing table. It'll just make requests > of you based on your past performance, and expect you to be efficient > in replying with data (or quick DNFs). It's more or less your node's > responsibility to get good at some kinds of requests based on what the > rest of the network asks of you, and if you don't get good at a > certain area of request, the network should tend to ask you for that > area less.
Nor did I say the other node knows whats in your DS. I what I implied was that if your node can answer, from its DS, 5% of the 'A' queries the rest of the network probably will not see it as specialized in 'A' _unless_ it also knows of good routes for keys with 'A'... Ed _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
