On 09-Mar-2004 vinyl1 wrote:
> OK, I have the latest build (5074), the latest seed nodes, the latest
> everything I could find as of today, 3/8/2004
> 
> On the Web interface, I can't load The Freedom Engine, Dolphin's Free Index,
> and Content of Evil.  I can load the Freenet Help Index and YoYo.  This is
> possibly due to unreachable, out-of-date nodes.  The stuff that does load
> seems to work better than before.

Basing your evaluation of your node's performance on what's appearing and/or
reachable via the main web interface is not a good idea.  Most of the gateway
sites have been horribly unreliable for quite some time now (with the exception
of DFI).  I really don't know why this is the case; I've had no trouble at all
inserting DFI daily.  To ensure that the next DBR update is inserted in time, I
always start the update process (an automated, scheduled job) at least 1 1/2
hours prior to the rollover time (12:00 am GMT).  I'm wondering if other
gateway site maintainers are not allowing enough time in advance for their
inserts to complete on time.

DFI's insert got a little screwed up yesterday, due to the fact that I was in
the process of running a portupgrade of my JDK under FreeBSD.  Probably due to
the additional load on the system from running the build, FIW somehow ended up
inserting DFI one day further into the future than it was supposed to.  I didn't
discover this and finally get the problem corrected until about 8:30 pm CST
(2:30 am GMT).

I saw someone else here basing assumptions about their node's behavior on the
fact that they couldn't reach YoYo!  Unfortunately, Yoyo! is one of the more
unreliable sites lately (no idea why).

Anyway, the gist of the idea is this: don't assume that non-functioning gateway
sites mean your node is not working.

-- 
Conrad Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - "In Unix veritas"

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