Re: Why competing Gnutella clients help LimeWire

That's pretty obvious no? The k-buckets are important for two things though. For one they 
improve the resistance against malicious Nodes. Once a k-bucket is full and the Tree has 
reached its max depth there's no easy way for malicious Node to be added to the Route 
Table. Second, the k-buckets ensure that every Node has good but not too much 
knowledge of the DHT.

It's a bit hard to implement the Route Table without k-buckets. As for FIND* operations we 
(LimeWire) do as if there are no k-buckets.

 Roger

--- In [email protected], "Zlatin Balevsky" <zlatinb@...> wrote:
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> >The main thing to note is how handle k-buckets doesn't matter to the
> >over success of the protocol (just the efficiency), as long as any
> >FIND* message returns nodes at least one bit closer to the query.
> 
> Really?  I remember we went to great lengths to emulate bucket behavior
> through Patricia.  We have added some code that will let us do some advanced
> statistical measurements that will give a lot of insight into how Kademlia
> functions.
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