Am Saturday, 14. August 2004 12:42 schrieb Garb:
> ...
> I am running Freenet with "do announce", which I figure has the purpose
> of telling the world that I exist and would like to be added to other
> peoples list of nodes. At the same time I assume that I am building up
> my own internal list of good contact nodes by simply surfing Freenet
> and thus interacting with the network.
That is correct.
> But whenever I update, I get two files - the "jar" and a much lager
> "noderef". Assuming that the latter contains a list of known good
> contact nodes, will this file then overwrite the one I have in my
> system already? Or maybe append itself to it? Or is it simply discarded
> by my node because it already has one?
The "seednodes.ref" file is overwritten on update, this is ok because
nodes come and go. On startup, the node decides if it knows about enough
neighbours, otherwise some noderefs from the seednodes file are added to
the routing table (you can see that at the first lines in the log "(not)
seeding routing table").
If you want to force a reseed, you just have to give the seednodes.ref a
later modification date than the routing table files (load and save the
file without modification).
>
> If the one I've built by running and using Freenet simply gets
> overwritten by the noderef, wouldt that mean that my node have to
> integrate itself into the network from scratch everytime I update?
No. The routing table is saved in different files (the ones named *_a and
*_b). The seednodes.ref is only used as primer.
> To add to my confusion, I've noticed that people often get the advice
> to "re-seed" when complaining about too many RNF's, and they are even
> provided with a special link for that. Isnt "re-seed" what we all do
> automatically everytime we update? Is the noderef from that special
> link "better" than the one I get every time I upgrade?
This link points to the very same file, which is loaded by the automatic
updater. After the download, the automatic updater changes the
modification time into the past, to avoid reseeding on every startup. As
long as the existing routing table is healthy, reseeding may degrade the
routing quality.
good byte
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