Re: Re: DHT vs Gnutella

Am Mittwoch 06 August 2008 18:49:38 schrieb Nikolay Raspopov:
> For example by adding ability to create good network graph in same maner as
> RIP-protocol helps to routers to route. There is some useful stuff already
> implemented like longdistance-PING/PONG packets in Gnutella 1 and KHL/LNI
> packets in Gnutella 2 which can help to do this task. Perhaps its time to
> merge crawler and ultrapeer in one "smart" ultrapeer.

There's at least one problem to that: How do you determine "best path", and 
how do track it to be sure that it stays the best path while others discover 
it? All this without crawling all the time, because we don't want to waste 
too much bandwidth. 

Besides: It's still "Mikes Protocol", not Gnutella 2. If you want to know, why 
I'm still pissed, please have a look at the answer of Mike Green back then 
(he isn't the creator of "Mikes Protocol", he just happens to share the same 
name): 
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_gdf/message/11976?threaded=1&var=1&p=8

and read some of the comments of non-developers over there to really 
understand why I don't like the name "Gnutella 2". It didn't split the 
Gnutella developers, but it did split the users quite badly, and it continues 
to do so. 

Best wishes, 
Arne
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