gpg: Signature made Sat Feb 23 19:00:49 2008 UTC using DSA key ID E43DA450
gpg: Good signature from "Matthew John Toseland <toad@amphibian.dyndns.org>"
On Friday 22 February 2008 17:07, Pete Heist wrote:
> I'm looking for a basic explanation of how the swapping of the locations of
> two nodes works (details aside, as it seems the implementation may still be
> in flux?)
>
> I'm confused as to how nodes can swap locations in the network without
> either changing the nodes they're connected to or changing their IDs (which
> would be a security problem in the first case or a routing complication in
> the second)...but I may just have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the
> 0.7 routing works...
A node's "location" is simply a number between 0 and 1. We route requests
towards the location closest to the content we are trying to find. Does that
clarify things a bit?
