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English => Feature requests => Topic started by: adunzo on March 17, 2008, 11:31:18 AM

Title: More nodes.dat files simultaneously
Post by: adunzo on March 17, 2008, 11:31:18 AM

Hi everybody,
When using KAD, you're stuck to the nodes referenced by the nodes.dat file. This could be annoying when, it happens to me, you're searching for files that no one belonging to that set of addresses have.
In fact, if I use another nodes.dat file (i.e. a French or a Spanish one), magically I can find what I was looking for. Ok ok, you might say, just switch to another nodes.dat and try searching... But of course this is quite irritating because when I change, then I can't find (and keep downloading) the files that were on the other network described by the older nodes.dat.
My proposal is to implement a mechanism that can take the advantage to use two or more nodes.dat files simultaneously. Is that possible?
Thank you

Title: Re: More nodes.dat files simultaneously
Post by: RRT4 on March 17, 2008, 02:13:39 PM

the way you think is not the correct way the kad network is supposed to work

Title: Re: More nodes.dat files simultaneously
Post by: skolnick on March 22, 2008, 01:23:06 AM

I always thought that a search on kad searched your peers, and your peers searched on their peers, etc. so you eventually would get results from all the existing peers...however I am not sure, so i could be wrong.

Regards.