Myers reported (I think) that his twisted Chord network passes a unit test where you start with two separate Chord networks and introduce one node from the first net to one node from the other, and then the two nets merge. Meanwhile, I've finished implementing a version of ent (based on Kademlia) which keeps only one node per k-bucket, and fixed several bugs, but there remains some bug that I haven't investigated (I'm out of time) which causes it to fail the basic "contruct a network, publish a block, fetch the block" unit test. (Please, someone fix it, as I'm probably busy this week.) I just wanted to comment that there is no way known (to me at least) for Kademlia to pass the unit test that Myers is using on his Chord net -- merging two separate nets into one. Kademlia can't do that AFAIK. (This is one way of observing the "Kademlia doesn't self-heal" problem.) I also wanted to mention that Chord can sometimes fail, too, if the nets happen to line up so that the resulting merged Chord net is "loopy". The Liben-Nowell paper [1] explains how to fix that. --Z [1] http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/553810.html ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ mnet-devel mailing list mnet-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mnet-devel ----- End forwarded message ----- [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]