>On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:38:15AM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote: >> Take a look at the following histograms. It would seem that my ds is >> specialized in 2 and 5. I am not currently getting requests for these >> keys in anything other than a random distribution. This was not the case >> yesterday when my node had been up for several days with the same ip. >> >> When does a node (not my node but those quering it) lose its info on >> what it thinks my specization is? Suspect that this happens if a node >> is down for an hour or so and its IP changes. If this is correct, >> connecting specialization info to the name (which is in freenet.conf) >> would make more sense - it also might be a good idea to cache the info >> on disk. >> >> This could explain why after an IP address switch traffic is very >> much reduced for several hours. If info on specialization is lost, it >> would also tend to produce DNFs as we not using a directed search of >> the key space. >The network loses the node when it changes IP address, unless you use >dyndns or other dynamic DNS service to provide a constant IP address. >Which you really ought to do for a permanent node.
Obviously. I _do_ use dyndns and I also notice that there is a marked dropoff in requests after my ip address changes (and is updated by dyndns). When I looked at the request histogram this morning (8 hours up) the pronounced peak on 2 that I had be seeing yesterday had decayed badly... Now that the networking layer is working well I just want to be very sure the higher levels are too. Auditing the code for this layer may just turn up some bugs - you managed to find and fix many others. Tia, Ed Tomlinson _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
