Re: [Help-gnunet] Question about routing efficiency

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Saturday 10 August 2002 07:57 am, Igor Wronsky wrote:
> Suppose I attempt to download an unique 1k block, and the query
> is routed as A1->A2->...->An. Further suppose all nodes can answer
> the query with content from their datastore (==all nodes have
> that block). Will this result in the worst case in transferring
> the same block for 1+2+3+...+n hops and my node receiving
> it n times?
>
> Please say no. ;)

Ok, no. Each node A1, A2, A3, ..., An keeps track of answers that were already 
seen in the routing table (only the hash is kept, which is sufficient). Thus 
if Ai receives the same reply twice, it will just drop the second answer.

Christian
p.s.: Wasn't that rather a question for gnunet-developers?
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