2009/3/26 Russ Weeks <rwe...@gmail.com>:
> That's a really interesting question... Petar Maymounkov, in his description
> of Kademlia, shows that in the Gnutella network, the longer a node has been
> alive, the more likely it is to stay alive. Does this suggest that the
> liveness "pings" should follow an exponential backoff as well? (in addition
> to the NAT traversal pings, I mean) Or is this behaviour likely specific to
> Gnutella and is unlikely to be found in other P2P systems?
I distinctly remember some statistics indicating that the expected
lifetime of a node was proportional to its uptime.
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