On 2/6/19 11:38 AM, Catonano wrote: > I managed to share a file with a friend of mine through Gnunet > > In both directions: he downloaded a file I had shared (as some of you > have done too) AND I have downloaded a file that he had shared > > So now I have a few questions about the Gnunet file sharing system > > How does it work ? > > Do I need to "seed" it as I would do with bittorrent in order to keep it > available ?
Not strictly speaking. Peers may cache the file and keep it available even if you are offline. But there is no guarantee that they will keep it available, and a yet to be fixed design flaw (IMO) is that they may keep some parts available but not the entire file, resulting in the possibility of failed downloads. > Or, can I go off line and it will still be fetchable by people ? Yes, for a while. > Currently i am hosting my personal blog on DAT but I'm not happy with it > for some reasons > > I'm thinking about hosting it on Gnunet. > > Is that advisable ? > Is there any specific notion I should keep in mind in doing so ? For a blog, I would probably use the VPN/Exit hosting, not file-sharing. For that, you need to run the 'exit' service and configure a TCP exit to your Webserver (running on loopback) and then use a GNS name with a VPN record. With that, anyone who has your GNS name and configured the VPN can access your blog via their browser, similar to an eepsite (i2p) or a Tor hidden service. Note that due to stylography, blogs are virtually never anonymous. > I am tempted by the idea off hosting web content without paying any > hoster and without paying for a domain name Not paying for a domain name == GNU Name System (GNS) is what you want. And self-hosting again is best done with the VPN. > Hosting my stufff with resources I already have, my laptop and a quite > decent adsl connection Note that the GNUnet-VPN case, your site will only be available when you are online, that's the one thing that is likely to be not quite what you want here. In the future, I want to see a better integration of FS with GNS, so you can point GNS domain names to FS URIs. If we combine that with a gnunet-gns-proxy that understands this, it would solve your problem perfectly (available while offline & GNS). But sadly, we are not there today.
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