[p2p-hackers] DHT or unstructured?
Martin Günther
mintar at web.de
Tue Jul 5 20:31:34 UTC 2005
> eDonkey (the network) is an unstructured network, and Overnet (the
> network) is a DHT network developed by the same others. However,
> eDonkey (the software) now uses Overnet (the network) for lookup.
> Likewise, eMule (the software) originally used eDonkey (the
> unstructured network) but now also uses Kad (the DHT network).
I'm not quite sure if I misunderstood you, but the server-based
eDonkey network has not been abandoned. It is still used in parallel
with Overnet (in the eDonkey client) and Kad (in the eMule client). If
that is what you wanted to say, I'm sorry for wasting your time.
Martin
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