Martin Geisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is it known how long a so-called permanent node stay offline before it > is forced to reannounce it self? > > I try to run my node 12 hours each day --- is this enough, or do the > other nodes in Freenet forget about it and it's keys when it's shut > down for the night? > There are many variables as to how long an inactive node will stay in the collective freenet's memory. The main one is how many references to that node there are on other nodes. The longer the node is up, the more requests it serves, the more references there will be to it.
But also, it depends on the load on the rest of the network, even more specifically on the nodes that know about yours. If there's a lot of small requests (as opposed to the slower requests for large chunks of data), nodes will take longer to remove your references from their routing table. Lastly it depends on how many new nodes those nodes find out about after yours is down. If they don't find many new nodes, your references will stay in their table even if they're processing many requests. It should be easy for someone to watch for connections on the FNP port of their inactive node and graph the connection frequency over time, but afaik noone has done this. Thelema -- E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raabu and Piisu GPG 1024D/36352AAB fpr:756D F615 B4F3 BFFC 02C7 84B7 D8D7 6ECE 3635 2AAB _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
