Re: Re: Questions regarding Mojito

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 7:09 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> :* What is the meaning of contact instance ids? My guess is the number of times
> :that the node/contact has been restarted or lost and regained connectivity.
>
> I was never able to figure out what it meant and never got any clarification
> on that field, so gtk-gnutella simply ignores this field and puts "1" in there.

It's actually very simple. Nodes change their Instance ID every time
they startup/bootstrap. Other Nodes (in particular the k-closest) can
use this information to do things like re-store-forward Key-Value
tuples...

-Roger Kapsi