On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:11:11PM +0200, Sebastian Sp?th wrote:
> Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> 
> > I would like to note here that it is NOT a good idea to announce
> > yourself to a lot of different peers. Ideally it should be just one,
> > though two or three is probably a good idea for redundancy. More is
> > directly harmful.
> 
> 
> In this case Freenet does not the right thing. I guess it's the default 
> setting announcementPeers=10 which should be lowered then, right? (/me 
> is not sure what the setting is precisely for)

IIRC, that sets the total number of nodes that the announcements should
reach, so the HTL on the announcement messages would be 

<announcementPeers> / <number announced to>

The value is in fact very low, and was set as such because otherwise
they don't have a chance to finish on the tiny new networks.

> >>b) in case of a failed-announcement 
> >>(which was the case in 99% during the last days) you will get the same 
> >>stuff all over after 5 sec, 10 sec, ..., 3600 sec. (don't quote me on 
> >>the intervals though). Which can make it quite a lot of entries.
> > 
> > So we'll go with the time honored Freenet tradition of fixing the
> > symptom (or in this case the WARNING) rather than fixing the problem...
> 
> 
> I do not feel it's fixing the symptoms in this case as the error 
> messages of failure will still be part of the log. I do think that 
> announcement *scheduling* is a rather minor event (despite of actually 
> performing the announcement which should be part of the "normal" log).

It's not like it matters.

> 
> Sebastian
> 
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