from twisted.internet import main
main.installReactor(reactor)
-# how many times a node can fail to respond before it's booted from the routing table
+# magic id to use before we know a peer's id
+NULL_ID = 20 * '\0'
+
+# Kademlia "K" constant
+K = 8
+
+# SHA1 is 160 bits long
+HASH_LENGTH = 160
+
+
+### SEARCHING/STORING
+# concurrent xmlrpc calls per find node/value request!
+CONCURRENT_REQS = 4
+
+# how many hosts to post to
+STORE_REDUNDANCY = 3
+
+
+### ROUTING TABLE STUFF
+# how many times in a row a node can fail to respond before it's booted from the routing table
MAX_FAILURES = 3
+# never ping a node more often than this
+MIN_PING_INTERVAL = 60 * 15 # fifteen minutes
+
+# refresh buckets that haven't been touched in this long
+BUCKET_STALENESS = 60 # one hour
+
+
+### KEY EXPIRER
# time before expirer starts running
-KEINITIAL_DELAY = 60 * 60 * 24 # 24 hours
+KEINITIAL_DELAY = 15 # 15 seconds - to clean out old stuff in persistent db
# time between expirer runs
KE_DELAY = 60 * 60 # 1 hour
# expire entries older than this
-KE_AGE = KEINITIAL_DELAY
+KE_AGE = 60 * 60 * 24 # 24 hours