On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:29:35AM -0600, Chris wrote: > I used to use Freenet on a dialup modem with only my OpenBSD firewall/NAT > box between me and the internet (my ISP just did straight packet passing, > back then). This was 1999-2000-ish :) > > Back then, Freenet and fproxy were CLI only, but despite a slight lack of > content it worked pretty well and felt fairly snappy in response to > requests for data (either you got it within a few minutes, or you didn't > get it at all, and inserts almost always seemed to work). There were no > directories, but there were ways to find content, and I could publish and > retrieve stuff when I wanted to, with a bit of patience. > > I just got back into Freenet in 2004 with broadband and the nifty new > windows GUI 0.5.2.7, and I'm sort of amazed that Freenet really seems to > be... gone. Content is inaccessible, inserts are usually non-working, and > despite the purty GUI, it really seems to be 95% nonfunctional, unlike the > freenet that I remember from just a few years ago. > > I guess what this boils down to is -> > > - Is Freenet choking hardcore, or do I have technical issues? I'd love to > run a node now that I'm up 24x7. > - I'm root on my firewall/NAT box, but I have another firewall and another > NAT appliance of some kind upstream of me now, and I have no control over > these. Any kind of stateful connection works great, and UDP works as well, > but inbound stateless requests (FTP, DCC, etc) get eaten at the ISP's NAT > box. I don't think I can do anything about that. I don't know anything > about freenet's protocols, but I can't imagine that they're stateless?
You will not be able to run an effective permanent node if you can't accpet incoming connections on the listenPort :( > > Any insight appreciated :) Thank you. > > --Chris (SYN! ACK!) -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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