Gianni Johansson <giannijohansson at attbi.com> writes:

> > Ewww. That's not how freenet works. 
> I wouldn't claim to know "how freenet works".
>  
I'll follow this trend by agreeing that I don't know how freenet
works, but think that inserts at low HTL are not the way to do things.

> >Longer HTLs mean the data gets
> > closer to the keyspace focus, which means it is MUCH more findable, and
> > improves routing. 
> I think the effect of the data being inserted from many different points in 
> the network is more important than the insertions htl.  If you make the 
> default htl too high people won't re-insert at all.
> 
> 
The only difference between a low HTL and a high HTL insert is the
amount of time you have to wait before sending data; otherwise they're
identical in resources consumed.  As healing should be a non-blocking
process, I don't see any reason not to use a high HTL.  As far as
having data inserted from many points goes; I'd much rather have one
insert at HTL=15 than 30 inserts at HTL=1.  Freenet's routing
algorithm doesn't search randomly, so just having the data in more
places isn't sufficient.  It's got to be the right places.

> >Low HTL reinserts just make it replicate a bit,
> > generally where it shouldn't be. 
> >Of course I'd defer to Oskar here, but
> > that's my assessment.

whether HTL=5 is low enough to fall under the "non-specialized" level
or not is debatable, but I'm definitely for higher HTLs, so we don't
have freenet become random routing.

Thelema
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