> They do not search. They go straight back. But ALL messages on Freenet, even > Handshake Requests and Replies have a HopsToLive that is decremented on every > hop. For messages where it is not needed for practical reasons (like to kill > off a request) it is for security reasons - as Hal noted we had an error just > the other day that caused a reply message to bounce back and forth between two > nodes, had it not been for the HTL that would have gone on forever. It's > defensive programming, aka a good thing.
Hmm. That's not a bad idea. I had actually spec'd that handshakes didn't need HTL, because they are never forwarded. I'll rethink that. -- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee at piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
