On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 03:52:48PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:28:10PM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote:
> > Thanks for doing the legwork on this, Bad. However, I think requiring
> > users to restart the node once a day to get new inform.php addresses,
> > or requiring them to maintain the nodes.config file, isn't what we
> > want in the long run.
> >
> > We need to modify the way the routing table works so that it doesn't
> > lead to "ubernode election" in the first place.
>
> And, as I said in my original email, one promising avenue of
> investigation is limiting the number of references to a given node in
> the datastore. Assuming anything other than a tiny network, there is no
> good reason why multiple references to the same node must be tolerated.
Sure there is. Each reference gives more information about the keyspace of
that node. As has been said, it doesnt matter how many references there are
to a node, its how (or whether) that influences how often that node is
contacted.
Scott
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