On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:01:55 -0700 "Maps Baps" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> L.S., > > Some more on this, the nodes keep trying to connect the whole other 12 > hours long. Shouldn't they give up after some unsuccesfull attempts > until they are notified the node is on again? Maybe I am just asking a > stupid question and the behaviour observed is by design but neverteless, > can someone confirm the behaviour I see is correct and inline with the > intended behaviour? This is normal, but I don't know if there is a metric for when they will stop trying to connect. I do know that this is not a Freenet-specific problem, you'll see this behavior on almost any P2P network. For example I haven't run BearShare in several weeks but I'm still seeing connect attempts to the Gnutella ports. From several weeks ago. Gnutella clients tend to have a hosts.txt file or something similar, such that when the client is launched, it tries to contact those hosts. The host cache is periodically updated while the client is running. Someone who was connected to me a few weeks ago, then just now tries to run their Gnutella client again, will have my IP address cached and try to connect to me. As I understand it, Freenet's routing tables work in a similar manner. When your node launches, it tries to contact the nodes in its RT. If you haven't seen enough new nodes to flush older ones out of your RT, your node will periodically attempt to connect to nodes which may be long defunct. If I'm wrong about this I imagine someone will correct me :) -s _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
