Hello John, It would indeed be great if the FSF could maintain a small cluster of publicly accessible (not NATed) OpenDHT nodes, ideally pointed to by DNS (something like opendht.gnu.org or dht.gnu.io would be nice).
Running public, stable DHT nodes improves connectivity for Ring users, especially during peak churn rate (when many nodes join/leave the network at the same time). Committing to run a public stable node on the long run would also allow us to add this node in the list of Ring default bootstrap DHT nodes, making Ring more resilient and independent from infrastructure run by Savoir-faire Linux. The best way to run OpenDHT nodes is to use the dhtnode tool. To administrate instances of dhtnode more easily, I just made a systemd service for dhtnode (on the git master of OpenDHT). It binds on the default opendht port (4222) and uses bootstrap.ring.cx as its bootstrap node by default. See this page https://github.com/savoirfairelinux/opendht/wiki/Running-a-node-with-dhtnode for documentation about how to use dhtnode. Ideally these nodes should be administrated by the FSF, in order to have public dht nodes administrated by as many different organizations as possible, however it's also possible for SFL to administrate nodes run on FSF infrastructure. Best regards, Adrien Beraud Ring project, Savoir-faire Linux De: "John Sullivan" <[email protected]> À: [email protected] Cc: [email protected], [email protected] Envoyé: Lundi 22 Mai 2017 18:13:45 Objet: [Ring] FSF hosting a Ring server? Hi, RMS mentioned that you were interested in having FSF host a "Ring server". Can you send us more details about what that would entail? We are very tight on sysadmin resources right now, so whether we can do it would depend on the details, and what the benefits to Ring and Ring users would be. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: A462 6CBA FF37 6039 D2D7 5544 97BA 9CE7 61A0 963B http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at <http://my.fsf.org/join>.
