On November 16, 2003 10:17 pm, Edward J. Huff wrote: > > I'm very confused by this. I was under the impression that a > > QR meant "DON'T back down the chain, just try another path" and > > that DNF meant "send a failure all the way back down the chain, > > as the HTL has been exhausted." > > > > In fact, that's how I described it to someone on the list just > > a few days ago. No one corrected my mistake, if I got it wrong. > > I believe Edward has a longer-term, firmer grasp of Freenet's > > operations than myself, but someone please confirm this one way > > or the other. Apologies in advance for consuming devl traffic > > on this... (if I am the only one who is educated by it) > > Thanks for the confidence, but I don't know everything. I took > the guy you corrected as being right because I got behind reading > this list and thought that no one corrected _his_ mistake. But > since Toad and Ian replied to your message and didn't correct it, > you may well be right. But I saw other exchanges which make > much more sense if QR's do go all the way back.
HTL does not get decremented until we can route. So a QR will not cause the cascade. For that to happen we need to find the data or get a DNF... Ed _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
