Ian Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Matthew Toseland
> <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
>> On Friday 18 July 2008 14:12, Ian Clarke wrote:
>>> I shut down my opennet node overnight, and have just restarted it, it
>>> took over 5 minutes before it successfully re-established a connection
>>> to another node. This really isn't acceptable - surely it doesn't
>>> take 5 minutes for the node to figure out that none of its existing
>>> connections are valid any more?
>> How does this compare to the time taken to get a connection when the node was
>> first installed?
>
> I don't remember, anyone?
>
> Regardless of the answer, there is an issue here. If it takes 5
> minutes to get fresh opennet peers, then that is a problem too.
> People are impatient, they expect software to start working
> immediately they have installed it, and I really can't think of any
> reason that the connection process shouldn't be fast.
>
> Ian.
>
I think that if people approach it as a P2P network then they will expect it to
take a couple of minutes. Last time i have used gnutella that's about how long
it takes to start the thing up there 2-5 minutes...
- Volodya
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