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.
> 
> Ian.

if you have to *force* the organization of the network by doing something like
this, then the system is broken (Remember all that talk about self 
organization?)

<cliche>

Don't treat the symptom, and ignore the disease.

If you do this, you will *never* know if the underlying cause has been 
addressed.

</cliche>

D Schutt


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