Re: DHT vs Gnutella
[email protected] Wed, 6 Aug 2008 07:59:00 +0000 (UTC)
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.gnutella.devel |
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| Organization | Home, Grenoble, France |
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Quoting Nikolay Raspopov <[email protected]> from ml.gnutella.dev-forum: :Hello, [email protected]! :You wrote to <[email protected]> on Tue, 5 Aug 2008 20:11:15 +0000 (UTC): : : RM>In a flood model, search horizon is limited : :Then improve it! That why this list created! Suggest algorithms to reunite all :Gnutella ultrapeers to one connected network. That algorithm exists. It's called Kademlia. : RM> In a structured network such as the one provided by Kademlia, the : RM>topology guides you to the nodes where you are most likely to find the : RM>data. : :You cannot guaranteed that nodes will publish rare files in time especially for :large library with thousands and thousands of keywords and hashes. Moreover :storage nodes may go offline and you must republish all data again and again... :insane. Users will be "happy" with infinite downloading of all this key-value :pair data... Just like users were happy in the good old days when Gnutella was flooded with pongs and query hits. Raphael