Re: [Help-gnunet] Re: how fast should gnunet be?

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Thursday 29 August 2002 05:40 pm, Christian Drechsler wrote:
> well, i have to add sth:
>
> just downloading a file, and it's even quite fast. seems to work now. ?-)
>
> but, another question: there are so many succeeded local lookups at the
> moment that it seems as if i had much of the content i'm trying to
> download on my own server.

Well, that's called content migration (if you allow it).

> when there was an adsl reconnection some
> minutes ago the download stopped totally till the other hosts had found
> out my new IP. does that mean that all the content makes a round trip
> through the net instead of being sent to the client directly?

Well, if you get a new IP, nobody can send you any results anymore unless they 
learn the new one. This much should be obvious. Also, content is often not 
send to the client directly, yes, but if your IP changes, you can't do any 
more queries until you reconnect, and thus the content will stop moving, too.

If the content is available locally, though, it would NOT make a trip though 
the network, if that was your question. Then it is send directly back to the 
client (gnunet-download). Note that a file can be partially (!) on your local 
machine and partially on other nodes.

Christian
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