Hello, I've noticed a potential problem (node version 617, sorry didnt want to update, node was running so nicely). Here's the symptom:
[normal operation] When I started my node on Monday last week, traffic on my node reached very satisfactory levels after a day or so and stayed there for a whole week. Especially outbound traffic looked nice (and that's a situation that gives me confidence my node is doing it's work and being useful, either passing through data or answering from its own store (10g)). Network load was constantly around 80-100% and inbound search keys have nice peaks, also the peaks of the keys in my store were slowly starting to match the search request keys. [problem occurs on ip change] Then, in the night from Sunday to Monday, my friggin ip changed (I use dyndns, my provider terminates connection about every 3-10 days). This effected that traffic pretty much grinded to a halt and has now stayed there for more than 10 hours. Network load is a meager18-22%. There _are_ incoming connections. The incoming Connection event occurence counter has dropped from around 200-500 per hour to around 20 per hour, though. The cease of traffic coincides pretty accurately with the change of ip (I can tell it's +- 10 minutes). There were 2 ip-changes at 1:56 and 2:32 monday morning. You can check my traffic stats, if you don't believe my words: http://nf.dyndns.org/mrtg/null.void_ppp0.html [blah] now, it seems pretty clear (in my naive mind), what's happening here: Probably my fellow nodes don't "relookup" my dyndns name, therefore trying to connect to my old ip (which fails). How often is the ip of a node verified through dns, if at all? Does this only occur on first connection attempt? If this problem actually exists as I described and the reasons are as I assume, then it would probably help the network a lot if nodes would, when building a connection and seeing it fails, force a relookup of the name? cheers, nick _______________________________________________ support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
