You could always change your nodename to "I'll be back" or something before you leave, then people connected at that time can see that you are just away temporarily. That's what I was planning to do.
On 7/26/06, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 12:38:18PM +0200, Level 13 wrote: > > I was wondering, what are the possible consequences if one switches > > their Freenet node off for a while (say when going on vacation etc.)? > > I mean, is there a minimum limit as to when a node is considered > > "dead"? So if it comes back online in e.g. 1 month, will it be a whole > > new "discovery" for it, or will it continue operating from where it > > was before? > > A lot of people drop nodes which have been idle for a while, on the > assumption that they were newbies who have uninstalled. So yes, it > probably would lose many of its connections. > -- > Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFEx22lOHFIJVywduQRAviQAJ47o9OgJ0/BkgT60tCtVeWGEf/62gCffzIR > i2oNtIQuLCOEeVsw0AH/1Zc= > =Ru4C > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > Support at freenetproject.org > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:support-request at freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20060727/1bcd209c/attachment.html>
