On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 02:17:30AM +0000, Matthew Toseland 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.
Recent empirical evidence, and Oskar's opinion, suggests that we should leave it as is for now. -- Matthew Toseland toad at amphibian.dyndns.org/amphibian at users.sourceforge.net Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at http://amphibian.dyndns.org:8889/oDJg83z~BMg/ ICTHUS. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20030128/db73fb29/attachment.pgp>
