On Wednesday 08 January 2003 21:17, you wrote:

> > With the upcoming release of 0.5.1, and with the combination of ARKs and
> routing changes meaning that we will probably have a much greater
> proportion of new nodes permanent, it seems reasonable that we may need
> to increase the default maximum HTL. From a technical point of view, the
> only way to be sure that it was adopted would be to increase the last
> known good build to the version where we increased it... this would have
> much of the effect of a network reset, which could be a problem... we
> could increase it without trying to enforce it, but that would be messy
> in that some requests would get arbitrarily shortened just because they
> went through some old nodes...
>
> How should we handle this? Should we handle this? The longer we defer it
> the greater the impact on the network.
Shouldn't ARKs improve the network so that requests are routed more 
efficiently?

I'll defer to Oskar on this one, but my gut reaction is that we should leave 
it alone.

--gj

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