Return-Path: william@bourbon.usc.edu Delivery-Date: Sat Nov 22 08:29:28 2008 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on merlot.usc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (bourbon.usc.edu [128.125.9.75]) by merlot.usc.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mAMGTSfa002808 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:29:28 -0800 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bourbon.usc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id mAMGRJnE011701 for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:27:19 -0800 Message-Id: <200811221627.mAMGRJnE011701@bourbon.usc.edu> To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu Subject: Re: Get Flood Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:27:19 -0800 From: Bill Cheng Someone wrote: > When get message is flooded, suppose a node gets the message and > identifies the fileid and sha1 as being the ones that belong to a file > it has, then should it send the get response and not flood the request > or should it still flood the request message. It should continue to flood the GET request for the reason of plausible deniability. -- Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu