On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 09:18:01PM -0500, Nicholas Sturm wrote: > Sorry, you spoke only to the geeks. Do you want the rest of us to just > stay off line?
I was attempting to fix the problem of there being no stable seednodes that actually work. In other words, any new nodes (unless installed by someone who knows what they are doing) will immediately fail, not talk to any other nodes, and give no semblance of working. As opposed to the usual behaviour of connecting to a few nodes and still not working :). http://freenetproject.org/snapshots/seednodes.ref now contains several stable noderefs, so if your stable node needs reseeding, you should be able to do it. New nodes should be able to connect to several other nodes and therefore become part of the network. As this will have prevented new users from using freenet at all, it seemed to be a fairly high priority. I apologize for not following either the lists or my inbox closely over the last few days, I got back from a short xmas break with a huge backlog and it seemed more important to get multiplexing done on the unstable branch. I will probably go through my mail tomorrow. The best thing non-geek users can do is continue to run their nodes as normally, and report any interesting behaviours or error messages. We need people running nodes on both the stable and unstable branches; if you run a node on the unstable branch, you must update your node every 24 hours. If you are running a permanent, reasonably stable node on a reasonable broadband connection (DSL or cable modem), without any special firewalling problems, you should contact me and we can talk about using your node as a seednodes source. This is easier if you are on linux or other unixen. Meanwhile, on the stable branch, 5051 has a significant bugfix that should improve the network performance, and on the unstable branch, multiplexing has been committed, which should, once debugged (that may take some time!), improve performance and reduce resource usage in a variety of ways. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 12/30/2003 7:07:11 PM > > Subject: [freenet-support] Request for help: Seednodes harvesting > notworking well > > > > Would the owners of soros.ca and freenet.teitel.net please mail me to > > the effect that either: > > a) They will be running the node on unstable for the foreseeable future. > > or > > b) They will be running it on stable. > > > > We also urgently need reliable permanent stable branch nodes to read > > seednodes from. We currently have a stable noderef file full of unstable > > nodes, consequently we are not gaining any new users because stable > > won't talk to unstable! I have started my stable node, but I don't like > > the seednodes relying on my nodes for several reasons: > > 1. I like to turn off the stable node to speed up the unstable node. > > 2. I like to turn off the stable node for gaming. > > 3. I like to turn off both nodes for debugging major changes such as > > muxing. > > 4. The project doesn't pay me enough to throw more hardware at this. > > > > Bottom line: we need more nodes on both stable and unstable branches to > > serve as seednode sources. All you need to do is either > > a) Grant access from dodo.freenetproject.org (use the IP, > > 212.13.198.248), to your web interface (the implications are obvious :( > > ) OR > > b) Run a cron job to download http://<local web > > interface>/servlet/nodestatus/noderefs.txt?minConnections=1 to a file, > > and upload that file to somewhere we can wget it from, OR > > c) Run a cron job to download it and mail it to us. This would require > > additional work. > > > > CONDITION: You should not switch your node from one branch to another > > without prior warning by email to me, once you are in the seednodes. > > -- > > Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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