Paul M. wrote:
> On 5/24/06, David Sowder (Zothar) <freenet-devl at david.sowder.com> wrote:
>> freenetwork at web.de wrote:
>> > Hi you guys,
>> >
>> > today I fired up an old node I had (previously updated it to
>> current cvs but used old node and peers). It had 1 connection and
>> around a dozen of nodes that were outdated and had their version
>> number colored red at the darknet page.
>> > It seemed to me that the outdated nodes were never tried to
>> connect. Perhaps they are really dead and gone, because one node came
>> up with "connected", but my question is - if noderefs are from
>> outdated nodes, does my node try to connect to them or not?
>> > Wondering I loaded the starting page and saw that 0 ARKS were being
>> fetched - so are outdated nodes not checked for their inserted ARKs?
>> >
>> > I'm just wondering because if i have old referenced to other nodes,
>> these nodes will have old references to my node. If my node does not
>> try to connect to them because they are too old, they will not try to
>> connect to mine either. So even if both nodes are up and healthy
>> > they would not connect to each other, despite they have each
>> other's ref becuase they are considered too old.
>> >
>> > Am I way off here?
>> >
>> [snip]
>> Unless there is a bug, the starting/wecome page ARK fetch request count
>> should be correct. Also, unless there is a bug, ARKs will be requested
>> for any host that is listed on the /darknet/ page as "DISCONNECTED".
>> ARKs will NOT be requested for nodes listed on the /darknet/ page as
>> "INCOMPATIBLE" nor nodes listed as "TOO NEW" because we already know we
>> had connectivity with them to mark them as "INCOMPATIBLE" or "TOO NEW".
>> Should the peer upgrade, we'll know to change their status based on them
>> sending us a handshake request with their new information, which they
>
> If our node is NATed then they may not ever be able to connect to us
> if DNATing it not setup.
However, that should be independent of anything to do with the color of
the version as listed on the /darknet/ page. It would be a bug in my
code if it weren't independent of color.
