Re: DHT expiration questions

[email protected] Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:13:27 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.network.gnutella.devel
Organization Home, Grenoble, France
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Quoting Arne Babenhauserheide <[email protected]> from ml.gnutella.dev-forum:
:So either I'm wrong, or publishing in the DHT alt-locs just duplicates data in 
:the DHT which is already available as shared files (except for the hopefully 
:rare case where no complete sources of a certain file are vailable). 
:
:Did I misunderstand something? 

How do you think data is published in the DHT?

It is because alt-locs are published in the DHT that you are able to
support sourceless magnets.

The download mesh is there to exchange alt-locs between active sources.
The DHT is there to seed the initial sources.

They are both complementary and reinforce each other.

Raphael