> Scaling to 10B is going to change that much, 5 more bins, 40 more host > to ping every 15 minutes.
I believe this is actually an issue. The number of pings per host scales as O(log N), which means the amount of maintenance traffic scales as O(N log N) -- more than linearly with the size of the network. Given the nature of the DHT, the addresses to be pinged will be scattered all over the Internet. That is, nodes in the US will ping nodes in China, Australia, Europe, etc. So we end up with a substantial background noise over the inter-continental connections, and the amount of noise will grow more than linearly with the number of nodes in the network. -- Christian Huitema _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
