Re: Re: DHT usage and requirement lists

Am Mittwoch 06 August 2008 02:51:11 schrieb Bill Pringlemeir:
> --- In [email protected], "pwang708" <wang.peng@...> wrote:
> > Please feel free to edit and/or put new sections.
> >
> > Usage:
> >
> > 3) alt-locs
>
> Doesn't alt-loc become obsolete or at least replicated by the DHT?  If
> sources can be located by hash, then it would seem that you could
> locate many sources assuming that all nodes are using the DHT.

The DHT can keep only a limited amount of IPs, so direct alt-loc exchange is 
still useful to have a well working download mesh. 

Best wishes, 
Arne

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