[p2p-hackers] p2p framework

[Haris Papadakis]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Daniel Stutzbach wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 11:33:55AM -0500, Greg Bildson wrote:
> > > I came across Gnutella, which in its pure architecture suffers from
> > > scalability problems due to flooding.
> >
> > Gnutella "flooding"?  That is so 2002.  Your phrase "iterative deepening"
> > sounds more like the dynamic querying that we use now.
>
> I find it amusing when people claim a functioning 2-million peer
> system doesn't scale. :-)
>
Well, actually, either does not scale or does not give good coveragae. Cos
as I have said in another list, the basic reason Gnutella scales is TTL,
no? Is it not tha case in Gnutella: Scalability, coverage, pick one?
I must have an email somewhere from a developer in Limewire saying that it
is NOT the purpose of Gnutella to reach all the network..

Harris Papadakis
ICS-FORTH