Re: [freenet-support] Questions

2013-02-16 Thread user1 
On 02/16/2013 12:58 PM, Dennis Nezic wrote:
 On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:18:03 -, dissiden...@tormail.org wrote:
 Hello, everyone
 Thank you for your efforts
 I have several questions about freenet's security
 First of all i would like to notice that there is a lack of
 documentation on the site regarding cryptographic algorithms
 implemented in freenet. I wasn't able to find anything about it in
 the official FAQ

 What algorithms are in use ? How my traffic is encrypted ? Or it is
 not encrypted at all ?
 There is an SSL option in Freenet, what it is for ? Is it dangerous
 to use freenet without it?

 As far as i understood, freenet using keys to get access to some
 information. Each key contains a hash of the file and the decryption
 key. So when i'm using freenet i'm requesting some file by its key.
 So what will prevent my ISP to spy my keys and then grab an encrypted
 file from my traffic ? After that he can use a key with a file and -
 viola - he can view my information.
 Is it possible or i'm not understand the scheme ?
 You're not understanding the scheme. Do you have access to
   https://freenetproject.org/faq.html#hash
 or
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet
 ?
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Lets say you are a group of 10 men and you want to communicate by
computer and nobody else must know.
You all have to install a fresh freenet on each or yours computers.
Then you must  all 10 meet some place in real life (a bar or club) and
exchange nodes e.g. by exchanging nodes copied onto a cd. That means
each of you must bring 10 cd's with a copy of your node.
Nobody  else must know what you are doing.
Then you have a darknet.
To keep a darknet private you must not mix up with any opennet nodes.
I just try to explain the principle of how you could run darknet in a
simple way.
Please correct me if I am wrong?

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[freenet-support] Questions

2008-10-25 Thread Matthew Toseland 
On Friday 24 October 2008 00:58, Luke771 wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:18:40 -0400
> "fred simpson"  wrote:
> 
> > a) Can you be traced by your ID if someone gets your IP while you are
> > in low or normal stranger mode?
> 
> If you mean whether your Frost or FMS identity can be linked to your real 
life ID, the answer is no. More exactly, not unless you do something stupid 
or you decide to let your ID be traceable.
> 
> Using the insecure mode (aka Opennet) it is very easy to determine the you 
('you' as in real life identity) are running Freenet, but there is no way to 
link your real life identity to your Frost or FMS identity, or determine 
that 'real-life you' has authored one particular freesite.
> In other words, as long as there arent any laws that make anonymous 
networking illegal in your country of residence, you should be fine even with 
insecure mode: they can tell that you run Freenet but they can't tell what 
you do with it.
> 
> In theory, it is possible for a peer to figure out what files you 'probably' 
download using a correlation attack, which is another strong point in favor 
of darknet: only connect to peers that you trust not to try and eavesdrop 
your requests. In practice though, an attack of that kind doesn't give 
certainity but only a fair probability. In court, that would mean that your 
fate depends on how good your lawyer is, and another bunch of human factors.

Well ... hopefully. Correlation attacks can likely be pretty damning if you're 
connected to the target. Of course you need to find them first, and if you've 
managed to trace them, why not just bust down their door and seize their 
computer? Tracing content is much easier on insecure mode/opennet/medium-low 
network security/strangers connections than on a pure darknet. The basic 
attack is to identify a stream of traffic known to belong to a target 
identity, use the requests to get a rough idea of the location of the 
originator, and gradually get closer to him/her. This is obviously much 
easier on opennet because getting connections closer to a given location is 
much easier on opennet. We have some ideas for how to make both of these 
attacks much harder (there are always attacks on any practical system, 
including Tor; it's a question of cost). But we haven't implemented them yet.
> > 
> > c) Has anyone ever been arrested for the content they accessed using
> > Freenet?
> 
> Not that I'm aware of. Not in the West. It is possible that it has happened 
and I don't know about it.
> If authorities suspect you to possess illegal files and seize your computer, 
you're pretty much screwed. You may have a chance if you have taken 
precautions that have nothing to do with Freenet (it's mostly about file 
storage).

A Dutch magazine did a sting on a small paedophile network on Freenet iirc, 
using the tried and trusted tools of social engineering (i.e. relying on 
users being stupid, which usually works even with criminals). We asked for a 
copy and never got it.
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[freenet-support] Questions 2

2008-10-25 Thread Luke771 
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:29:24 -0400
"fred simpson"  wrote:

> On 10/23/08, Luke771  wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:18:40 -0400
> > "fred simpson"  wrote:
> >
> >> a) Can you be traced by your ID if someone gets your IP while you are
> >> in low or normal stranger mode?
> >

> Thanks a lot but wouldn't it be relatively easy for someone to get
> your IP while you're in opennet mode and then become one of your
> friends before OR AFTER you go into darknetmode?
> 

If you connect to someone in darknet mode, that peason is supposed to be a 
friend, trusted by default.
And if you run opennet, you know that you can't hide that you run Freenet.

Someone that gets to know that you run freenet because he peered to your IP 
through opennet is someone that you don't trust enough to tell him that you're 
running Freenet -therefore, you shouldn't connect him to your darknet.

And yes, we all can misplace our trust. Somone that you believed to be a friend 
can sell your ass for much lower price than you imagined, possibly even for the 
pure pleasure of getting you busted. That kind of things has always happened 
and always will happen. You can try to minimize the risk but you can't possibly 
reduce them to a nice round zero.

> 
> >>
> >> b) How do you access Freenet through tor?
> >
> > You don't.
> >
> I have Torbutton on while I access Freenet through Firefox. What is that?
> 

You're not accessing Freenet through Tor. If you check how your proxy settings 
look like while Torbutton is activated, (tools or settings menu according to 
your system, then preferences => Advanced => Network => settings) you'll find 
that the second field from the bottom is marked 'No proxy for...' and the value 
in the field is '127.0.0.1, localhost'. 
That means that when you type 127.0.0.1 or localhost in your browser's address 
field, Firefox skips the proxy.

> 
he West. It is possible that it has happened
> > and I don't know about it.
> > If authorities suspect you to possess illegal files and seize your computer,
> > you're pretty much screwed. You may have a chance if you have taken
> > precautions that have nothing to do with Freenet (it's mostly about file
> > storage).
> >
> I'm assuming that means encrypting your drive.
> 

You're assuming wrong.
All they need is a password. The police will simply kick your ass until you 
give up your password. And They are trained professionals who know physical and 
psychological techniques to extract information.
That is, unless you live in some idyllic country in Northern Europe, where the 
police do not kick uspects' ass and you would get to choose between giving up 
your password or facing a prison sentence for the crime of not giving up your 
password (that's for your own good, boy)

Your only defense is don't get caught -ever-.
If they find an encrypted disk, you're just as screwed as you would be if you 
had your data stored in clear, plus some good ass-kicking.
With some research (read: google) you can learn how to configure LUKS (maybe 
even Truecrypt) to make your encrypted partitions luck like they're simply 
unformatted. Not that it would help much if the bad guys happen to -know- that 
the data is there (and there are thousands of way to find out, including asking 
YOU, say on a mailing list.


> >>
> >> d) Is it possible to have multiple Freenet ID's? If so, can you use
> >> them at the same time?
> >
> > If you mean Frost or FMS identity, the answer is yes. And yes.

> I meant multiple instances of Freenet. I'd like one instance in
> opennet and one instance in darknet. For downloading non-sensitive
> files and communicating non-sensitive information and for downloading
> sensitive files and communicating sensitive information, respectively


Yes, you can have multiple instances of Freenet on the same box. If you run the 
installer while a node is already running, your new node will be automatically 
configured to use different ports for FProxy and for connecting to apps such as 
Frost or Thaw. In the same way, you can run the installer a third time while 
the two existing nodes are running, and the third node will use a third set of 
ports.
However, you will need to configure the applications (Thaw, Frost, etc) to make 
them connect to the second node (or the third etc), because they would all 
connect to the first node by default (port 9481)

Anyways, I don't see much sense in this kind of configuration. I won't even 
discuss wehther or not it would be more secure than simply running a node the 
way it's supposed to be run (it probably isn't), the only thing that I'm going 
to point out is that you have accessed a mailing list, declared that you use 
Freenet, given some clue about your nationality and colural background, and 
pretty much stated that you are interested in downloading illegal files.

If I was you, I'd stay the hell off anything more illegal than mowing your lawn 
at the wrong time of the day.


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Re: [freenet-support] Questions

2008-10-25 Thread Matthew Toseland 
On Friday 24 October 2008 00:58, Luke771 wrote:
 On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:18:40 -0400
 fred simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  a) Can you be traced by your ID if someone gets your IP while you are
  in low or normal stranger mode?
 
 If you mean whether your Frost or FMS identity can be linked to your real 
life ID, the answer is no. More exactly, not unless you do something stupid 
or you decide to let your ID be traceable.
 
 Using the insecure mode (aka Opennet) it is very easy to determine the you 
('you' as in real life identity) are running Freenet, but there is no way to 
link your real life identity to your Frost or FMS identity, or determine 
that 'real-life you' has authored one particular freesite.
 In other words, as long as there arent any laws that make anonymous 
networking illegal in your country of residence, you should be fine even with 
insecure mode: they can tell that you run Freenet but they can't tell what 
you do with it.
 
 In theory, it is possible for a peer to figure out what files you 'probably' 
download using a correlation attack, which is another strong point in favor 
of darknet: only connect to peers that you trust not to try and eavesdrop 
your requests. In practice though, an attack of that kind doesn't give 
certainity but only a fair probability. In court, that would mean that your 
fate depends on how good your lawyer is, and another bunch of human factors.

Well ... hopefully. Correlation attacks can likely be pretty damning if you're 
connected to the target. Of course you need to find them first, and if you've 
managed to trace them, why not just bust down their door and seize their 
computer? Tracing content is much easier on insecure mode/opennet/medium-low 
network security/strangers connections than on a pure darknet. The basic 
attack is to identify a stream of traffic known to belong to a target 
identity, use the requests to get a rough idea of the location of the 
originator, and gradually get closer to him/her. This is obviously much 
easier on opennet because getting connections closer to a given location is 
much easier on opennet. We have some ideas for how to make both of these 
attacks much harder (there are always attacks on any practical system, 
including Tor; it's a question of cost). But we haven't implemented them yet.
  
  c) Has anyone ever been arrested for the content they accessed using
  Freenet?
 
 Not that I'm aware of. Not in the West. It is possible that it has happened 
and I don't know about it.
 If authorities suspect you to possess illegal files and seize your computer, 
you're pretty much screwed. You may have a chance if you have taken 
precautions that have nothing to do with Freenet (it's mostly about file 
storage).

A Dutch magazine did a sting on a small paedophile network on Freenet iirc, 
using the tried and trusted tools of social engineering (i.e. relying on 
users being stupid, which usually works even with criminals). We asked for a 
copy and never got it.


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[freenet-support] Questions 2

2008-10-24 Thread fred simpson 
On 10/23/08, Luke771  wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:18:40 -0400
> "fred simpson"  wrote:
>
>> a) Can you be traced by your ID if someone gets your IP while you are
>> in low or normal stranger mode?
>
> If you mean whether your Frost or FMS identity can be linked to your real
> life ID, the answer is no. More exactly, not unless you do something stupid
> or you decide to let your ID be traceable.
>
> Using the insecure mode (aka Opennet) it is very easy to determine the you
> ('you' as in real life identity) are running Freenet, but there is no way to
> link your real life identity to your Frost or FMS identity, or determine
> that 'real-life you' has authored one particular freesite.
> In other words, as long as there arent any laws that make anonymous
> networking illegal in your country of residence, you should be fine even
> with insecure mode: they can tell that you run Freenet but they can't tell
> what you do with it.
>
> In theory, it is possible for a peer to figure out what files you 'probably'
> download using a correlation attack, which is another strong point in favor
> of darknet: only connect to peers that you trust not to try and eavesdrop
> your requests. In practice though, an attack of that kind doesn't give
> certainity but only a fair probability. In court, that would mean that your
> fate depends on how good your lawyer is, and another bunch of human factors.
>
Thanks a lot but wouldn't it be relatively easy for someone to get
your IP while you're in opennet mode and then become one of your
friends before OR AFTER you go into darknetmode?



>>
>> b) How do you access Freenet through tor?
>
> You don't.
>
I have Torbutton on while I access Freenet through Firefox. What is that?



>>
>> c) Has anyone ever been arrested for the content they accessed using
>> Freenet?
>
> Not that I'm aware of. Not in the West. It is possible that it has happened
> and I don't know about it.
> If authorities suspect you to possess illegal files and seize your computer,
> you're pretty much screwed. You may have a chance if you have taken
> precautions that have nothing to do with Freenet (it's mostly about file
> storage).
>
I'm assuming that means encrypting your drive.

>>
>> d) Is it possible to have multiple Freenet ID's? If so, can you use
>> them at the same time?
>
> If you mean Frost or FMS identity, the answer is yes. And yes.
> A pretty common mistake is to send messages using the 'wrong' ID. I did that
> a number of times and eventually gave up on trying to keep a 'secret ID'. I
> don't need it anyway, so I din't try to do that using a safer setup, but
> that is possible, and pretty easy: for instance you may run separated
> instances of Frost in different directories (you may need to set them to use
> different ports, or run one at a time, I can't tell right now because I
> haven't run Frost in a long time).
> FMS doesn't need several instances because it uses a news client rather than
> its own client like Frost does, if the point is to avoid sending a message
> with the wriong ID, using separated news clients for different ID's would
> do.
I meant multiple instances of Freenet. I'd like one instance in
opennet and one instance in darknet. For downloading non-sensitive
files and communicating non-sensitive information and for downloading
sensitive files and communicating sensitive information, respectively

>>
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[freenet-support] Questions

2008-10-24 Thread Luke771 
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:18:40 -0400
"fred simpson"  wrote:

> a) Can you be traced by your ID if someone gets your IP while you are
> in low or normal stranger mode?

If you mean whether your Frost or FMS identity can be linked to your real life 
ID, the answer is no. More exactly, not unless you do something stupid or you 
decide to let your ID be traceable.

Using the insecure mode (aka Opennet) it is very easy to determine the you 
('you' as in real life identity) are running Freenet, but there is no way to 
link your real life identity to your Frost or FMS identity, or determine that 
'real-life you' has authored one particular freesite.
In other words, as long as there arent any laws that make anonymous networking 
illegal in your country of residence, you should be fine even with insecure 
mode: they can tell that you run Freenet but they can't tell what you do with 
it.

In theory, it is possible for a peer to figure out what files you 'probably' 
download using a correlation attack, which is another strong point in favor of 
darknet: only connect to peers that you trust not to try and eavesdrop your 
requests. In practice though, an attack of that kind doesn't give certainity 
but only a fair probability. In court, that would mean that your fate depends 
on how good your lawyer is, and another bunch of human factors.

> 
> b) How do you access Freenet through tor?

You don't.

> 
> c) Has anyone ever been arrested for the content they accessed using
> Freenet?

Not that I'm aware of. Not in the West. It is possible that it has happened and 
I don't know about it.
If authorities suspect you to possess illegal files and seize your computer, 
you're pretty much screwed. You may have a chance if you have taken precautions 
that have nothing to do with Freenet (it's mostly about file storage).

> 
> d) Is it possible to have multiple Freenet ID's? If so, can you use
> them at the same time?

If you mean Frost or FMS identity, the answer is yes. And yes.
A pretty common mistake is to send messages using the 'wrong' ID. I did that a 
number of times and eventually gave up on trying to keep a 'secret ID'. I don't 
need it anyway, so I din't try to do that using a safer setup, but that is 
possible, and pretty easy: for instance you may run separated instances of 
Frost in different directories (you may need to set them to use different 
ports, or run one at a time, I can't tell right now because I haven't run Frost 
in a long time).
FMS doesn't need several instances because it uses a news client rather than 
its own client like Frost does, if the point is to avoid sending a message with 
the wriong ID, using separated news clients for different ID's would do.
> 


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Re: [freenet-support] Questions 2

2008-10-24 Thread fred simpson 
On 10/23/08, Luke771 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:18:40 -0400
 fred simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 a) Can you be traced by your ID if someone gets your IP while you are
 in low or normal stranger mode?

 If you mean whether your Frost or FMS identity can be linked to your real
 life ID, the answer is no. More exactly, not unless you do something stupid
 or you decide to let your ID be traceable.

 Using the insecure mode (aka Opennet) it is very easy to determine the you
 ('you' as in real life identity) are running Freenet, but there is no way to
 link your real life identity to your Frost or FMS identity, or determine
 that 'real-life you' has authored one particular freesite.
 In other words, as long as there arent any laws that make anonymous
 networking illegal in your country of residence, you should be fine even
 with insecure mode: they can tell that you run Freenet but they can't tell
 what you do with it.

 In theory, it is possible for a peer to figure out what files you 'probably'
 download using a correlation attack, which is another strong point in favor
 of darknet: only connect to peers that you trust not to try and eavesdrop
 your requests. In practice though, an attack of that kind doesn't give
 certainity but only a fair probability. In court, that would mean that your
 fate depends on how good your lawyer is, and another bunch of human factors.

Thanks a lot but wouldn't it be relatively easy for someone to get
your IP while you're in opennet mode and then become one of your
friends before OR AFTER you go into darknetmode?




 b) How do you access Freenet through tor?

 You don't.

I have Torbutton on while I access Freenet through Firefox. What is that?




 c) Has anyone ever been arrested for the content they accessed using
 Freenet?

 Not that I'm aware of. Not in the West. It is possible that it has happened
 and I don't know about it.
 If authorities suspect you to possess illegal files and seize your computer,
 you're pretty much screwed. You may have a chance if you have taken
 precautions that have nothing to do with Freenet (it's mostly about file
 storage).

I'm assuming that means encrypting your drive.


 d) Is it possible to have multiple Freenet ID's? If so, can you use
 them at the same time?

 If you mean Frost or FMS identity, the answer is yes. And yes.
 A pretty common mistake is to send messages using the 'wrong' ID. I did that
 a number of times and eventually gave up on trying to keep a 'secret ID'. I
 don't need it anyway, so I din't try to do that using a safer setup, but
 that is possible, and pretty easy: for instance you may run separated
 instances of Frost in different directories (you may need to set them to use
 different ports, or run one at a time, I can't tell right now because I
 haven't run Frost in a long time).
 FMS doesn't need several instances because it uses a news client rather than
 its own client like Frost does, if the point is to avoid sending a message
 with the wriong ID, using separated news clients for different ID's would
 do.
I meant multiple instances of Freenet. I'd like one instance in
opennet and one instance in darknet. For downloading non-sensitive
files and communicating non-sensitive information and for downloading
sensitive files and communicating sensitive information, respectively




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Re: [freenet-support] Questions 2

2008-10-24 Thread Luke771 
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:29:24 -0400
fred simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 10/23/08, Luke771 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:18:40 -0400
  fred simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  a) Can you be traced by your ID if someone gets your IP while you are
  in low or normal stranger mode?
 
snip
 Thanks a lot but wouldn't it be relatively easy for someone to get
 your IP while you're in opennet mode and then become one of your
 friends before OR AFTER you go into darknetmode?
 

If you connect to someone in darknet mode, that peason is supposed to be a 
friend, trusted by default.
And if you run opennet, you know that you can't hide that you run Freenet.

Someone that gets to know that you run freenet because he peered to your IP 
through opennet is someone that you don't trust enough to tell him that you're 
running Freenet -therefore, you shouldn't connect him to your darknet.

And yes, we all can misplace our trust. Somone that you believed to be a friend 
can sell your ass for much lower price than you imagined, possibly even for the 
pure pleasure of getting you busted. That kind of things has always happened 
and always will happen. You can try to minimize the risk but you can't possibly 
reduce them to a nice round zero.

 
 
  b) How do you access Freenet through tor?
 
  You don't.
 
 I have Torbutton on while I access Freenet through Firefox. What is that?
 

You're not accessing Freenet through Tor. If you check how your proxy settings 
look like while Torbutton is activated, (tools or settings menu according to 
your system, then preferences = Advanced = Network = settings) you'll find 
that the second field from the bottom is marked 'No proxy for...' and the value 
in the field is '127.0.0.1, localhost'. 
That means that when you type 127.0.0.1 or localhost in your browser's address 
field, Firefox skips the proxy.

 
he West. It is possible that it has happened
  and I don't know about it.
  If authorities suspect you to possess illegal files and seize your computer,
  you're pretty much screwed. You may have a chance if you have taken
  precautions that have nothing to do with Freenet (it's mostly about file
  storage).
 
 I'm assuming that means encrypting your drive.
 

You're assuming wrong.
All they need is a password. The police will simply kick your ass until you 
give up your password. And They are trained professionals who know physical and 
psychological techniques to extract information.
That is, unless you live in some idyllic country in Northern Europe, where the 
police do not kick uspects' ass and you would get to choose between giving up 
your password or facing a prison sentence for the crime of not giving up your 
password (that's for your own good, boy)
 
Your only defense is don't get caught -ever-.
If they find an encrypted disk, you're just as screwed as you would be if you 
had your data stored in clear, plus some good ass-kicking.
With some research (read: google) you can learn how to configure LUKS (maybe 
even Truecrypt) to make your encrypted partitions luck like they're simply 
unformatted. Not that it would help much if the bad guys happen to -know- that 
the data is there (and there are thousands of way to find out, including asking 
YOU, say on a mailing list.


 
  d) Is it possible to have multiple Freenet ID's? If so, can you use
  them at the same time?
 
  If you mean Frost or FMS identity, the answer is yes. And yes.
snip
 I meant multiple instances of Freenet. I'd like one instance in
 opennet and one instance in darknet. For downloading non-sensitive
 files and communicating non-sensitive information and for downloading
 sensitive files and communicating sensitive information, respectively


Yes, you can have multiple instances of Freenet on the same box. If you run the 
installer while a node is already running, your new node will be automatically 
configured to use different ports for FProxy and for connecting to apps such as 
Frost or Thaw. In the same way, you can run the installer a third time while 
the two existing nodes are running, and the third node will use a third set of 
ports.
However, you will need to configure the applications (Thaw, Frost, etc) to make 
them connect to the second node (or the third etc), because they would all 
connect to the first node by default (port 9481)

Anyways, I don't see much sense in this kind of configuration. I won't even 
discuss wehther or not it would be more secure than simply running a node the 
way it's supposed to be run (it probably isn't), the only thing that I'm going 
to point out is that you have accessed a mailing list, declared that you use 
Freenet, given some clue about your nationality and colural background, and 
pretty much stated that you are interested in downloading illegal files.

If I was you, I'd stay the hell off anything more illegal than mowing your lawn 
at the wrong time of the day.


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[freenet-support] Questions

2008-10-23 Thread fred simpson 
a) Can you be traced by your ID if someone gets your IP while you are
in low or normal stranger mode?

b) How do you access Freenet through tor?

c) Has anyone ever been arrested for the content they accessed using
Freenet?

d) Is it possible to have multiple Freenet ID's? If so, can you use
them at the same time?
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2003-01-06 Thread John McCain 
I am a newbie who has just set up a permanent node, and I'm getting
abysmal results trying to access freesites.  The few attempts that
succeed take up to an hour to load, and most sites never come back at
all.  Is this performance normal?  I've heard conflicting reports about
how to improve performance, from adding every site you've ever seen to
your seedrefs file to cleaning out your seedrefs file.  What's the deal
on improving performance?  Is it simply a matter of time?

I expect my IP address to change soon?  What effect will this have on my
node?  Will I need to blast all the data and do a fresh install, or can
I move the working node to the new address?


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Re: [freenet-support] questions

2003-01-06 Thread Matthew Toseland 
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 10:34:11AM -0600, John McCain wrote:
 I am a newbie who has just set up a permanent node, and I'm getting
 abysmal results trying to access freesites.  The few attempts that
 succeed take up to an hour to load, and most sites never come back at
 all.  Is this performance normal?  I've heard conflicting reports about
 how to improve performance, from adding every site you've ever seen to
 your seedrefs file to cleaning out your seedrefs file.  What's the deal
 on improving performance?  Is it simply a matter of time?
Partly it is a matter of time. It is also a matter of the TFE problem.
This is (and we are incapable of fixing it because Ian has decreed that
we shall not patch browsers), that when you load TFE, it takes ages,
because it has lots of images, and browsers artificially limit the 
number of HTTP connections that they use to a given host (i.e. your
browser). This is NOT a bug in the browser, it works fine for HTTP,
where all requests succeed or fail more or less instantly, and then
transfer data, but it IS a bug in the way we communicate with browsers.
 
 I expect my IP address to change soon?  What effect will this have on my
 node?  Will I need to blast all the data and do a fresh install, or can
 I move the working node to the new address?
Shouldn't be a problem. Just make sure you haven't set an IP address
explicitly in the config file, and it will be autodetected.
 

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Re: [freenet-support] questions

2003-01-06 Thread Dave Hooper 
 I am a newbie who has just set up a permanent node, and I'm getting
 abysmal results trying to access freesites.  The few attempts that
 succeed take up to an hour to load, and most sites never come back at
 all.  Is this performance normal?

... Yes ...  Although an hour seems excessive.  For example, the more
popular freesites (e.g. those which are nearer the top of the page at The
Freedom Engine) should be retrievable in a matter of minutes or less,
depending on connectivity.

 I've heard conflicting reports about
 how to improve performance, from adding every site you've ever seen to
 your seedrefs file to cleaning out your seedrefs file.  What's the deal
 on improving performance?  Is it simply a matter of time?

There's no real way to get an immediate-oxygen-hit boost to your
performance.  Time is the best way, especially if you have a permanent
node.  Just try retrieving as many different things as you can for now, as
your node will use this to find out about the other Freenet nodes in its
neighbourhood and so improve routing over time.

 I expect my IP address to change soon?  What effect will this have on my
 node?  Will I need to blast all the data and do a fresh install, or can
 I move the working node to the new address?

You don't need to change any of the software.  You can use the rabbit's
Configure option (under Windows) or edit freenet.conf / freenet.ini to set
a new IP address.  Then stop and restart Freenet.  You won't lose any data
in your freenet data store.  In fact, in the not-too-distant future, you
won't even need to change anything - Freenet will automatically notice
that your IP address has changed and reconfigure itself accordingly.

d

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