Bob wrote: > Shaun Burnett <lonewheel at ...> writes: > > >>Hello Freenet Guru's, >> >>I've been trying for the last few weeks to get a Freenet node working >>on Win Xp (SP 2), and although I'm not networking champion, I think >>I've done everything I should. I've opened up the correct port in my >>ADSL Modem / Router / Firewall and yet I still can't get anywhere. >>Even when I switch to Dial up, I still have the same trouble, which >>is, when I open the Gateway it says Build 5106 and stops at 5%, unless >>I keep hitting refresh in which I can get it go to 40% before the >>refresh refuses to have any further effect. >> >>I've got the DNS update service running (non static IP) and have put >>that in the config file. >>I've changed the max number of connections, but have since forgotten >>what I changed it to; it was to a recommendation I read somewhere on >>the Wiki. >>I've also tried to download the latest seednode info from >>http://www.freenetproject.org/snapshots/ and also using the "update >>Snapshot" program, which downloads the Jaw update fine but times-out >>every single attempt on the seednode update part. Any attempt to >>download the seednode update always times-out. > > > Did you use a recent installer? If it's an old one, UpdateSnapshot might be > trying to grab seednodes.ref uncompressed and from somewhere it isn't anymore. > If it's a slightly less old installer it might be an issue with coralCDN > latency > and short timeouts. > > Either way, it should work fine with the latest UpdateSnapshot ... you can get > just that from http://bob.sdf-eu.org/freenet/UpdateSnapshot.exe, or download a > new installer and use that. (I help maintain the official installers though so > if you don't trust me you're screwed either way ;) > > -- big performance data snip -- > > The problem is you have no connections, incoming or outgoing. You appear to > only > have 2 node references, both of them presumably uncontactable, so I think your > seednodes.ref file is a tiny truncated one. Try updating with the latest > UpdateSnapshot linked above, or if you'd prefer for the time being manually > download a new one to e.g. c:\Program Files\Freenet\ from one of the zipped > copies at http://downloads.freenetproject.org/seednodes/, and overwrite your > presumably tiny one with it. > > Bob
shouldn't someone just setup a distribution applet (that "spread freenet" link) and post it's address? oh, now i see, it's a matter of trust.