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+++ faq.php 2003-06-29 19:30:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
</li><li><a href="#firewall">How do I get freenet working with a Firewall/NAT?</a>
</li><li><a href="#connection-perm">Do I need a permanent connection to run a
node?</a>
-</li><li><a href="#warez">1 c4n'T 63t n0 w4ReZ, f1L3z, mp3z, n07hiNg!?!</a>
</li><li><a href="#connections">Why does Freenet only download 1 or 2 files at a
time?</a>
</li><li><a href="#io-error">What does I/O error in servlet mean?</a>
</li><li><a href="#store-perm">Why can't Freenet store data permanently?</a>
@@ -72,11 +71,10 @@
is also very efficient in how it deals with information, adaptively
replicating content in response to demand. For more information,
-please read <a href="index.php?page=whatis">WhatIsFreenet</a>.</p>
+please read <a href="index.php?page=whatis">What Is Freenet</a>.</p>
<p><b id="who">Who is behind Freenet?</b><br>
-Freenet
-grew out of a design for an anonymous publication system created by Ian
+Freenet grew out of a design for an anonymous publication system created by Ian
Clarke while a student at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Since
then many other people have contributed towards making Ian's proposal a
reality.</p>
@@ -89,9 +87,9 @@
prove that you wrote different pieces of information on Freenet, without revealing
your identity. In this way you could build up an anonymous reputation for
reliability.</p>
-<p><a name="donate-bw">Do I have to donate disk space and bandwith?</a>
+<p><b id="donate-bw">Do I have to donate disk space and bandwith?</b><br>
You aren't really donating in the sense that you lose the disk
-space and the bandwith; but you aren`t really sharing either (at least
+space and the bandwith; but you aren't really sharing either (at least
not the same way as with filesharing programs). It is more like
pitching in to the common Freenet resource pool.</p>
@@ -99,12 +97,12 @@
Do you get to do that anonymously? Freenet is designed with anonymity in mind,
performance comes second.</p>
-<p><a name="donate-more-bw">All my friends donate very little space and bandwith. Why
should I donate more?</a>
+<p><b name="donate-more-bw">All my friends donate very little space and bandwith. Why
should I donate more?</b>
If you are happy with what you are getting then no. But if you want
more you should consider donating more, making your node permanent and
you should ask your friends to do the same.</p>
-<p><a name="donate-lot">If I donate a lot will my experience improve
significantly?</a>
+<p><b name="donate-lot">If I donate a lot will my experience improve
significantly?</b>
Your experience will definitely get better, but for a really great
improvement we need more people to start thinking like you. Bandwith
counts more than diskspace.</p>
@@ -115,16 +113,20 @@
node, you will likely not want to switch back to transient. Your node
will connect itself better to the rest of the network, so requesting
keys wll be faster. Since you will be getting a lot of traffic it is
-likely that the newly stored material will be closer to you (or eveb on
+likely that the newly stored material will be closer to you (or even on
your very own node) and you will have faster access to the newest
-editions of the freesites or the latest uploads in Frost. Do you really
-need anytihng else? ;-) Oh yeah, you are helping the network too.</p>
-
+editions of the freesites or the latest uploads in Frost. Without permanent
+nodes, there is no network to request from. By running a permanent node you are
+helping the network.<br>Perhaps more importantly, running a permanent node improves
+your anonymity. Since all requests coming from a transient node originate on that
node,
+the node you're connecting to is guaranteed that the request came from you. A
permanent
+node forwards requests for other nodes too, so the node you connect to can never be
sure
+if it was actually you requesting or inserting the data in question.</p>
<p><b id="legal">Is Freenet legal?</b><br>
If by legal you mean not illegal, then yes it is. Of course,
anything can be found to be illegal at some point in the future, and
-the law can be an ass sometimes, so we can make no guarantee about Freenet's future
legality other than it should be legal in any fair and just society.</p>
+the law can be an ass sometimes, so we can make no guarantee about Freenet's future
legality.
<p><b id="trouble">Can I get trouble if I run a node?</b><br>
This is related to the previous question. We have done everything
@@ -155,7 +157,11 @@
is available as long as its popular, you can help limit the popularity
of whatever information you do not like. For example, if you do not
want a file to spread you should not request it and tell everyone you
-know not to request that specific key.</p>
+know not to request that specific key. However, keep in mind that freenet
+is not designed so as to only allow communication between people if a sufficient
+number of people agree with the communication. Freenet is designed to make
communication
+possible even if there's just one publisher and one reader, and this is already
reasonably
+feasible on the current freenet.</p>
<p><b id="export">How about encryption export restrictions?</b><br>
The Freenet Project has notified the US authorities (since the files are hosted on
SourceForge,
@@ -168,12 +174,13 @@
is very useful because of its unique way it handles content distribution
and information load. In simple terms that means you can publish a
website without worrying about how big the site will be and without
-having to put someone elses ad banners on it. Over time that site may
-very well become more accessible and faster to load than a site on the
-ordinary web.
-
-<h1> Technical answers
-</h1><p><b id="how">How do I use this software? I downloaded it, but when I run it
there's no GUI.</b><br>
+having to put someone elses ad banners on it. While it is unlikely that
+freenet sites will ever load faster than regular websites, it does adapt to
+sudden surges of visitors (which will often occur when relatively unknown sites
+get linked to from a big site) better, and high download speeds for big files
+are feasible too. Just don't expect very low latency.
+<h1> Technical answers</h1>
+<p><b id="how">How do I use this software? I downloaded it, but when I run it there's
no GUI.</b><br>
Fred (the Freenet REference Daemon) runs as a daemon, or service, in the background.
You normally talk to it with a Freenet client. One of the services that Fred offers is
called fproxy, which lets you talk to Freenet with a web browser. Point your web
browser to <a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888/";>http://127.0.0.1:8888/</a> for the gateway
page. Try clicking the various links in the "Bookmarks" panel to reach some of the
popular Freenet index sites.</p>
<p>If you're looking for applications that run on top of Freenet and provide a
different interface or functionality, please see the <a
href="index.php?page=tools">Tools</a> page.</p>
@@ -195,46 +202,34 @@
do this, or if you do not administer the firewall, you will need to ask
your system administrator to do this.</p>
-<p><a name="connection-perm">Do I need a permanent connection to run a node?</a>
+<p><b name="connection-perm">Do I need a permanent connection to run a node?</b>
No, but it is preferred. You can run the software and test it from
a "transient" connection (such as provided by typical modem/ISP
setups), but for the network as a whole to be most useful, we will need
as many permanent nodes as possible (most cable modem or DSL setups are
suffiently "permanent" for this). A later version of Freenet may take better
advantage of transient nodes.</p>
-<p><b id="warez">1 c4n'T 63t n0 w4ReZ, f1L3z, mp3z, n07hiNg!?!</b><br>
-Since Freenet
-0.5 was released just recently it is probably still adjusting to the
-massive amount of new users joining it. Don't worry, once it adapts it
-will be much faster (it was very fast before the release was announced,
-so trust us). In the meantime you may try donating more disk space and
-bandwith and making your node permanent. It is very important to always
-keep your node up to date, so download the update script/program at
-least few times a week.</p>
-
-
<p><b id="connections">Why does Freenet only download 1 or 2 files at a time?</b><br>
Many browsers limit the number of simultaneous connections to something far too low
for efficiently browsing Freenet (since Freenet
pages often have much higher latency than web pages). This can usually
be reconfigured. For example, for Mozilla, create a file with the
following contents called user.js in the directory with prefs.js, or append to an
existing user.js:</p>
-<div class="simplebox" align="center">
-user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 200);
-user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 100);
-user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 10);
-user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 50);
-</div>
+<code>
+user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 200);<BR>
+user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 100);<BR>
+user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 10);<BR>
+user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 50);<BR>
+</code>
<p>Note that these settings will cause mozilla to use more
connections for all your browsing, which may not be desirable from a
network congestion point of view; volunteers to make mozilla allow this
sort of settings to be set per host would be welcome...</p>
-<p><a name="io-error">What does I/O error in servlet mean?</a>
+<p><b name="io-error">What does I/O error in servlet mean?</b><BR>
This message in the log file is normally harmless. Freenet writes this to the log
any time your browser breaks a connection to fproxy (<i>e.g.</i> if you clicked "Stop"
in your browser while waiting for a Freenet page's images to load).</p>
-
-<p><a name="store-perm">Why can't Freenet store data permanently?</a>
+<p><b name="store-perm">Why can't Freenet store data permanently?</b><BR>
Because we can't find a way to do this without compromizing Freenet's
other goals. For example, people often suggest that someone's node could
just never drop data they want to cache permanently. This, however,
@@ -243,35 +238,30 @@
that node. We have considered many other ways that Freenet could store data
permenantly, but they either won't work, or compromize Freenet's core goals of
anonymity, and scalability.</p>
-<p><a name="why-java">Why is Freenet implemented in Java?</a>
-The core reasons for implementing Freenet in Java are:
-</p><ul><li> Rapid development
-</li><li> Cross-platform
-</li><li> Good networking support
-</li><li> Open Source implementations available
-
-</li></ul>Almost everyone has their opinion as to which languages are
-better, sometimes these opinions are perhaps better described as
-religous convictions! Just remember that various architectural design
-decisions can have a much greater impact on efficiency and
-ease-of-development than the choice of programming language.<p></p>
+<p><b name="why-java">Why is Freenet implemented in Java?</b><BR>
+Opinions differ about the choice of java for the reference implementation of
+freenet (even among the core developers). <a
href="http://www.freenetproject.org/index.php?page=people";>Ian Clarke</a> and several
+other developers are java proponents and the choice for java was made. Even if
everybody could be convinced
+to switch to a different language reimplementing the current freenet protocol would
be quite a big task, and
+take up a significant amount of time, while there is only a limited about of
developer-time available. Flamewars
+on the development list about the language choice aren't welcome, people willing to
implement freenet
+in other languages however are very much encouraged to try. Don't underestimate the
amount of work however.
-<p><a name="fproxy-lan">How do I allow connections to FProxy from other computers?</a>
+<p><b name="fproxy-lan">How do I allow connections to FProxy from other computers?</b>
If you want everyone to be able to use your node, then add the following lines to
your freenet.conf or freenet.ini file:
-</p><div class="simplebox" align="center">
-mainport.bindAddress=*
-mainport.allowedHosts=*
-
-</div>
+</p><code>
+mainport.bindAddress=*<BR>
+mainport.allowedHosts=*<BR>
+</code><p>
Of course, this leaves your node wide open, unless you control
access with a firewall of some sort. If you'd prefer to use access
-controls within Freenet, then you can use lines like this:
-<div class="simplebox" align="center">
-mainport.bindAddress=*
-mainport.allowedHosts=127.0.0.1,192.168.1.0/24
-</div>
+controls within Freenet, then you can use lines like this:</p>
+<code>
+mainport.bindAddress=*<br>
+mainport.allowedHosts=127.0.0.1,192.168.1.0/24<br>
+<code>
-<p><a name="empty-conf">My freenet.ini (or .conf) file is empty, or nearly so!</a>
+<p><b name="empty-conf">My freenet.ini (or .conf) file is empty, or nearly so!</b>
If you tried to install Freenet
at a time when your Java runtime environment was not working, you might
have created a broken configuration file. Make sure your Java
@@ -291,11 +281,11 @@
blocks, and then reinserting them into Freenet.</p>
-<p><a name="fec-cli">My browser can't save large files from Freenet. Can I retrieve
them from the command line?</a>
+<p><b name="fec-cli">My browser can't save large files from Freenet. Can I retrieve
them from the command line?</b><br>
Yes, you can. Use this command:
-</p><div class="simplebox" align="center">
-java -cp freenet.jar freenet.client.cli.Main get KEY filename
-</div>
+</p><code>
+java -cp freenet.jar freenet.client.cli.Main get KEY filename<BR>
+</code><p>
Be sure to specify the filename you want to save the key into. You can use the
--help option to learn the other switches, such as healing percentage, HTL for the
individual blocks, etc.<p></p>
@@ -327,12 +317,15 @@
to the logs. Since this pattern can also occur under normal
circumstances (about once in every 65,000 times), a few Heisenbug
reports may be expected. But if you're getting lots of them,
-something's wrong.</p>
+something's wrong.</p><b>Update</b>: It's turned out that the heisenbug was actually
a bug in the fred
+code, there was a bug in our implementation of <A
HREF="http://www.counterpane.com/yarrow.html";>Yarrow</A>,
+a piece of code should have been synchronized (a java method of locking) but wasn't.
If you're still seeing
+heisenbugs being reported in your logfile and are running a current version of
freenet, please report them
+to the mailinglist.
<p><b id="backtrace">Why are there so many messages in my logfile with a backtrace
attached?</b><br>
-The development version (0.4) of fred outputs a backtrace if a log
-entry is triggered by an exception. To turn it quiet you must change
-the java source in Freenet/support/StandardLogger.java The relevant parts are calls
to printStackTrace.</p>
+Fred (and freenet in general) are still very much in development, and if something
goes wrong it's worthwhile
+to know exactly what went wrong.
<h1>Publisher answers
</h1><p><b id="find">If I publish something in Freenet, how will people find it?
Don't they have to know the key I used?</b><br>
@@ -433,13 +426,10 @@
dynamic routing cannot offer that, so to attain true anonymity you have
to send the message through an external network of anonymous remailers
-first (a future SMTP- >Freenet bridge would make this possible).</p>
-<p>It is our intention that Freenet's
-node-to-node communications should be encrypted, but that has not been
-implemented either (with the current state of the network we are more
-interested in testing if the theoretical ideas regarding the routing
-carry over into reality; you have to have a house before you can lock
-the door). </p>
+first (a future SMTP->Freenet bridge would make this possible).
+There are also plans for doing mixmaster-style injection of requests
+over the "standard" protocol, however this probably won't be implemented
+before version 1.0, which is still some way off.</p>
<p><b id="flooding">Is Freenet vulnerable to flooding attacks?</b><br>
Short answer: no.</p>
