Re: Cannot keep a connection to seeders or other strangers on Opennet

If you can, try to disable your firewall for a while, at least to test
things. They have been the cause of many mysterious networking issues
for me.

On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:40:59 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote:
> I did indeed get back onto the IRC last night.  How would I check for
> the centralized seed node health and what's the easiest way to get
> that information and the rejection reasons?
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Steve Dougherty
> <steve-kVTqj8yhOEv2eFz/[email protected]>wrote:
> 
> > On 04/11/2014 09:17 PM, Dennis New wrote:
> > > On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 13:36:35 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote:
> > >> After 3 days of trying to get Freenet to work, I continue to run
> > >> into the same issue. As soon as I log onto freenet, it goes
> > >> through its usual "Wait a few minutes while we set up and get
> > >> connected, you should be connected 24/7" and all that.  Well I
> > >> never end up connecting to anyone, or if I do, I max out at
> > >> around 3 or 4 and then I lose my connection to them in a few
> > >> minutes.  When I look at the status, they're more often than not
> > >> busy, so even if I wanted to, I couldn't browse around.  The
> > >> proper ports are open, the firewall is welcoming the program
> > >> with open arms, and I've lost too much sleep trying to get this
> > >> to work.  Here's the wrapper.log.  I don't know what other
> > >> information you'll need, so I'm hoping it's enough.
> > >>
> > >> http://code.bulix.org/pk192u-86010
> > >
> > > That link seems broken now (404 error).
> > >
> > > I'm guessing the "Max strangers" that you should be connected to
> > > is 8? What version are you running? And, in Status > Internet
> > > connection, does it say that your UDP Opennet port is forwarded?
> >
> > I think Daniel just came back into IRC saying the problem persists.
> > This machine is on wireless, though with no measurable packet loss
> > (with ping) and an exception in the firewall for Java. Maybe
> > excessive jitter?
> >
> > I'm not sure what else to recommend checking. I know antivirus can
> > frequently do odd things, like corrupt files when they're
> > downloaded in a misguided attempt to clean them. I don't see what
> > problem it might be introducing here - it sounds like more of a
> > networking problem.
> >
> > Centralized seed node health stats would be useful right about now.
> > That and logged rejection reasons from the seed nodes.
> >
> >
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