On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:38:02PM -0600, Edgar Friendly wrote: > Ed Tomlinson <tomlins at cam.org> writes: > > > Obviously. I _do_ use dyndns and I also notice that there is a marked > > dropoff > > in requests after my ip address changes (and is updated by dyndns). When > > The dropoff is probably caused by your node not being available for x > amount of time, and nodes checking to see if your node is available > less and less. > > > I looked at the request histogram this morning (8 hours up) the pronounced > > peak > > on 2 that I had be seeing yesterday had decayed badly... Now that the > > networking > > layer is working well I just want to be very sure the higher levels are > > too. Auditing the > > code for this layer may just turn up some bugs - you managed to find and fix > > many others. > > > > Tia, > > Ed Tomlinson > > > If you're offline/unreachable for longer periods of time (I think it's > got to be hours, but I'm not sure), it's possible to have all refs to > your node eaten and replaced by more accessible nodes. Then even when > you come back, you have to start from 0 refs. At which point your node will see that it's not getting any traffic, and reannounce, hopefully getting more traffic. Also, the load balancing code will ensure that any requests you do serve will have a very high reset probability. So overall, your node should be quickly reintegrated... in theory :) > > Thelema > -- > E-mail: thelema314 at swbell.net Raabu and Piisu > GPG 1024D/36352AAB fpr:756D F615 B4F3 BFFC 02C7 84B7 D8D7 6ECE 3635 2AAB >
-- Matthew Toseland toad at amphibian.dyndns.org amphibian at users.sourceforge.net Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker. Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/11/02. http://freenetproject.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20021112/9fb7eee2/attachment.pgp>
