Re: where do I find extra peers?

Mateusz Viste <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:12:33 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.network.gnunet.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I stumbled upon this today: https://gnunet.org/en/news/2020-07-0.13.0.html

Seems very fresh, so I guess maybe the "new" gnunet network isn't larger 
than the 5 peers I see after all. :)
Time will tell.

Mateusz



On 24/08/2020 17:04, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to run gnunet, but my installation struggles at finding 
> peers. peerinfo returns this:
> 
> $ ./gnunet-peerinfo
> Peer `M11ETFR5QFZ8KKVHHEDKTKWZEW00QD50NZAKZB7965MTW6HNGGSG'
> 
> Peer `FJMDCD66A71E340AHAZ641K8N1KQ54DSMJ212K817M9613BCTDDG'
>          Expires: Tue Aug 25 05:00:09 2020 tcp.0.124.ip-51-178-50.eu:2086
> 
> Peer `V8XXK9GAN5ZJFRFQP8MQX3D83BZTSBQVHKWWD0JPE63Z821906EG'
>          Expires: end of time     tcp:12:0
>          Expires: end of time     tcp:24:0
>          Expires: end of time     http_client:34:0
>          Expires: end of time     http_client:59:0
>          Expires: end of time     https_client:35:0
>          Expires: end of time     https_client:60:0
> 
> Peer `Y924NSHMMZ1N1SQCE5TXF93ED6S6JY311K0QT86G9WJC68F6XVZ0'
>          Expires: end of time     tcp.0.127.0.0.1:2086
>          Expires: end of time     tcp.0.gnunet.in.tum.de:2086
>          Expires: end of time     tcp.0.gnunet-stun.in.tum.de:2086
>          Expires: end of time     tcp.0.172.18.0.1:2086
>          Expires: end of time     tcp.0.172.17.0.1:2086
>          Expires: end of time     tcp.0.172.20.0.1:2086
>          Expires: end of time     tcp.0.172.19.0.1:2086
>          Expires: end of time     tcp.0.172.22.0.1:2086
>          Expires: end of time     tcp.0.[::1]:2086
>          Expires: end of time     tcp.0.[sam.net.in.tum.de]:2086
> 
> Peer `DSTJBRRKZ8TBW3FGK6B0M5QXWT9WYNZ45H5MCV4HY7ST64Q8T9F0'
>          Expires: end of time     udp:10:0
>          Expires: end of time     udp:10:0
>          Expires: end of time     udp:22:0
>          Expires: end of time     tcp.0.gnunet.in.tum.de:2086
>          Expires: end of time     tcp.0.gnunet-stun.in.tum.de:2086
>          Expires: end of time     tcp.0.[sam.net.in.tum.de]:2086
>          Expires: end of time     tcp:12:0
>          Expires: end of time     tcp:24:0
>          Expires: end of time     http_client:34:0
>          Expires: end of time     http_client:58:0
>          Expires: end of time     https_client:35:0
>          Expires: end of time     https_client:59:0
> 
> Peer `RM4WTVSQAA38GFK2D7NDC20KKNTXRTTVDW8F8VSFGTKDYX4BSZFG'
>          Expires: Tue Aug 25 04:57:44 2020        
> tcp.0.104.152.211.250:2086
> 
> 
> This is 5 peers in theory, but gnunet-statistics reports only 1 active 
> tcp connection. This doesn't seem like much, right? I have enabled DHT 
> peers discovery (OPTIONS = -b -e in hostlist section of the config 
> file), but without improvement.
> 
> I suppose gnunet is running on more than 5 computers. How could I add 
> extra peers?
> 
> Mateusz
>