On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:43:18AM -0600, thelema wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Are wrote: > > > Each time the datastore is corrupt and reset you own ref changes. What > > happens when a node on the default seed.ref list deletes its datastore > > (because of the DS bug(s))?? > > > > Wouldnt this cause a lot of authentication failiures?? > > > > My understanding of this situation (and this comes from scipient, so...) > is that doing a --resetDS doesn't wipe the node's identity, so there's > no problem bringing the node right up. My experience is that others are > able to successfully contact my node after I --resetDS, so this isn't > the problem. If you delete the .freenet directory or delete the store > some more destructive way, then you do need to update your node.
It should be noted, however, that it is not clear that this is a better option. If you loose your datastore and routingtable, then old references to you ARE faulty, so it isn't necessarily bad that they fail. <> -- Oskar Sandberg oskar at freenetproject.org _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
