[p2p-hackers] Kad Network with Kademlia

[Daniel Stutzbach]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 05:40:02PM -0500, Eunsoo Shim wrote:
> I am wondering whether Kad Network (based on Kademlia) has a 
> hierarchical architecture where supernodes are distinguished from 
> non-supernodes.

No, it does not.

However, it does distinguish non-firewalled peers (which form the DHT)
from firewalled peers (which can query the DHT but do not form part of
the routing structure).

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Daniel Stutzbach                           Computer Science Ph.D Student
http://www.barsoom.org/~agthorr                     University of Oregon