Re: [Help-gnunet] A few questions...

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Thursday 05 September 2002 12:57 pm, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> I discovered GNUnet and read all of the docs a couple of weeks ago but
> didn't get around to installing it until today. Overall I am pretty
> impressed, nice work! I have been a freenet user for a year or so but I am
> glad to see another anonymous network on the scene.

Thanks.

> I have a few questions:
>
> Why not choose a random port number? Binding to one specific port number
> makes GNUnet trivial to firewall and prevents the running of multiple
> gnunetd's on the same box. *NIX is multiuser afterall.

Well, having had problems with JXTA only reporting bind errors in 'debug' 
logging yesterday, I've thought about that. For the p2p-port, this is 
certainly an option & probably a good idea -- of course, if you run a tight 
firewall, a fixed port will still be better. For the CS-port, a fixed port 
will be needed since the client can not 'guess' which port gnunetd is 
listening on. 

> Is it going to negatively affect the network if I index a couple gig of
> content? Or should I index all that I can?

There is no negative impact on the network, even if you locally just index 
/dev/random. Content is currently only moved in the network if it is 
requested, so you'll just make more content available (which is always good). 
Note that every node has a (compile-time) limit of about 8 GB of content that 
it can index.

> Why do I have such trouble staying connected and how often does it try to
> connect to other hosts? The first time I fired up gnunet it connected to
> three hosts. Then I added the hosts.tar.gz to my .gnunet/data/hosts
> directory and restarted. I let it run all night and it never connected to
> anything else. I restarted this morning and it connected to 7 other hosts.
> Shortly after I started inserting content all of the connections were
> dropped.

Which version are you running? Downloading hosts.tar.gz is an artefact & 
should not be needed anymore. Going down to 0 connections was a bug in 0.4.6 
(patch is on the webpage).

Christian
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