Edgar Friendly <thelema314 at bigfoot.com> writes: > "gnutella fan" <gnutellafan at hotmail.com> writes: > > > [...] In addition if I want to share something and I am not worried > > about the content I could keep it on my computer and not have to worry > > about it being lost from the network if I dont refresh it. > > > No. The network would have no way to know to look on your computer > for those files. The way the network finds files is that it looks > where it would have put those files on insert. You have to insert > your files for them to be put where the network would expect to find > them. This is also why having keys permenantly stay in your store > isn't useful at all, because the network isn't trying to look for the > keys there.
Local requests (typically) go to the local node -- and if it already has the key, it won't route the request but will just return the data. So if a key is never expired (through luck, routing decisions, a "don't delete" flag, or what have you) from the local node, it will always be available, and very quickly to boot. Or am I overlooking something? -- Robbe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.ng Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20020116/869f54fb/attachment.pgp>
