On November 23, 2002 03:33 pm, Ian Clarke wrote: > I think we should get rid of the transient setting, the reason > being that it is relatively straightforward for a node to guess > whether it is likely to be transient or not. > > I would suggest that all nodes remain in "transient" mode > automatically until 6 hours after they come on-line. Nodes could > also keep track of what percentage of the day they are online > for, and switch back to transient if it is less than a certain > percentage (say 80%). > > This gets rid of the ugly manual transient setting. > > By a similar token, we should investigate whether the FNP > protocol can be enhanced to support a "tell me my IP address" > message, so that we have a reliable way to automatically > determine a nodes IP address.
I might also be a good idea to include the size of data in the datastore in this. If I stop my node for 20 mins it does not make much sense for it to revert to transient for 6 hours. There are 2G worth of keys here... Ed Tomlinson _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
