Couldn't one take advantage of the 50.000 mistake, by setting up a second server for that space.
The design of the prtotocol assumes a hierarchy -- maybe in the next attempt. Static partitioning would be possible (e.g. 0000-7ffff and 8000-ffff) but there are problems with acking to the right server, deciding which to contact, etc.
I guess things will screw up when the first server reaches FFFF, as indicated earlier.
Yup.
What would be nice is if one could divide up the key between servers also.
Hierarchy or static ?
Another thing that might decrease the load on the server is if we start allocating more blocks at a time, lets say 2-4 blocks each time. Wouldn't that help?
I think most of the load is "HELO COMM QUIT" clients. Yes -- we had thought of upping the allocation ....