Re: [Gnu-arch-users] New feature at the mirror + request for help

[Aaron Bentley]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Have these guys solved the problems that are pointed out in papers
> like "Why Gnutella Can't Scale.  No, Really"?
> http://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/doc/gnutella.html
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Those problems don't apply, because bittorrent doesn't provide search or 
naming services.

> And don't say "it's just a directory information service".  Some of
> the guys I work with (not economists; it's a weird department) do
> cell-phone network theory (and occasionally, practice).  At least in
> that environment, you run into the same kind of problem (basically,
> ping storms trying to find a server) just running a directory service.
> I don't know enough to know if that is worrisome on the Internet at
> the scales we're talking about.
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