Matthew Toseland wrote: > Well, we have the opennet reconnecting problem, and we have the universal > reconnecting problem... The first is that opennet auto-dumps disconnected > peers after 5 minutes if there are nodes being offered. The second is that > the nodes you were connected to probably aren't on the network anymore anyway > because they were newbies and they got tired of it. :(
Gnutella uses a cache of 10,000 known peers to deal with the latter problem, and can still take up to half an hour to find a live peer if the cache is a few days old. At what point does address caching become address harvesting? :-/ Cheers, Michael
