Re: [Gzz] hemppah's research problems document

[hemppah]

Quoting Tuomas Lukka <address@hidden>:

> > >
> > >1) DHT storing the actual blocks is
> > >   + pretty well understood
> > 
> > Pointers?
> > 
> > There are loads of p2p systems with a location step and a download step 
> > in actual use (Napster, Gnutella, Kazaa, eDonkey, Overnet, Circle...); 
> > some of them are based on DHTs. I don't know any off the top of my head 
> > that are storing the files as DHT values, and no research projects,
> either.
> 
> DHT storing the *data*.
> 
> Note that the ones you mention above seem to be pretty unstable.

Yes, partly true. However, AFAIK, Kademlia (Overnet, Circle) based DHT
approaches are far more stable compared to e.g. Napster, Gnutella, Kazaa and
eDonkey.

-Hermanni


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