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Old July 27th, 2003
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Originally posted by limenut
Is limewire going to do this by remembering one's search terms that were used to find the file and when the button is pressed it would search again using the same search terms as before to find more sources that are sharing a file of the same hash or is it going to search by the file's name and resume from anyone who returns a file with the same hash of the file that one is trying to resume?
LimeWire will search by filename until they have added a DHT. A distributed hash table would be a great christmas present for LimeWire's users (if one of the developers is reading this). Gnutella could be the first filesharing network to have a DHT that really works (unlike the one Overnet uses).
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