On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 03:32:15PM +0100, Chris Dennis wrote: > I'm puzzled by the way Freenet behaves when trying to keep a Freesite > alive. > > The first time I successfully insert a file at, say, htl=3, I know that > it's been propagated to three other nodes: HTL 3 is far too low. At least one prominent freesite is inserted at htl 10 - this should be sufficient from my experience. > > insert --> node0 --> node1 --> node2 --> node3 > Yes Yes Yes Yes > <-- 'Success' > > But when I re-insert it the next day (as part of a DBR site), node0 > immediately returns a KeyCollision. Which is fine, but it means that I > have no way of knowing what's happened on other nodes: the file may have > dropped off the rest of the network. There is a feature to ignore the local datastore; this isn't implemented in fproxy but some of the insertion clients must know about it. > > insert --> node0 node1 node2 node3 > Yes ??? ??? ??? > <-- 'KeyCollision' > > Have I misunderstood things, or is this a problem? > > There seems to be no way to ensure that my freesite remains propagated > in Freenet: I'm relying on people requesting the site to keep it alive. > I realise that this is part of the philosophy of Freenet - popular > information is easiest to access. But there seems to be a contradiction > between the ability to insert a site with a high htl in the first place, > and the inability to keep it there. > > Is there really any point in inserting with an htl other than zero? If you insert with an HTL of 0, _nobody_ will be able to access your site. By some estimates a few months old, there are at least 260 permanent nodes, but the maximum HTL for both requests and inserts is 25. > > regards > > Chris >
-- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker. Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/11/02. http://freenetproject.org/
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