Re: Swapping and datastore

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