Re: network from scratch

On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 12:18:21PM +0000, t3sserakt wrote:
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> On 01.11.22 12:35, [email protected] wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 09:19:38AM +0000, t3sserakt wrote:
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> > > > Message: 2
> > > > Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:45:15 +0000
> > > > From:[email protected]
> > > > To: Martin Schanzenbach<[email protected]>
> > > > Cc:[email protected],[email protected]
> > > > Subject: Re: network from scratch
> > > > Message-ID:<Y1/[email protected]>
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> > > > Aha so adding -f to the gnunet-peer -s -g makes it output the hello.
> > > > 
> > > > And that URI is accepted by gnunet-peer -p
> > > > 
> > > > Now the peer is listed with gnunet-peer (-f)
> > > > 
> > > > Now peer A and B has both peer A and B in their peerinfo lists.
> > > > 
> > > > However, the peer A is still not being sent by the hostlist (after retstarting
> > > > the nodes), still only the Y924 is being sent.
> > > > 
> > > > Then I changed the URIs fromgnunet://hello-friend  tognunet://hello.
> > > > Now the peers get sent with the hostlist.
> > > I do not get why - in F2F mode - you are doing that. What is the content of
> > > friends.txt?
> > > 
> > AFAIU, the friends.txt file is supposed to hold one public key per line
> > of nodes that one allows connections from.
> Means peer A has the hello of peer B in its friends.txt and vice versa?!
> > 
> > > Can you please elaborate more on your use case.
> > > 
> > Simply to bootstrap a fully private network.
> > 
> > What made it problematic was the forced connection of the bundled peer.
> > That's why I tried F2F mode, but it turns out that comes with its own caveats in
> > terms of how the modules behave.
> > 
> > The solution was to, as Martin suggested, delete the entry in the
> > $PREFIX/share/gnunet/hellos/* dir. When starting two peers from scratch
> > they automatically find each other (at least when running on the same
> > interface, that's what i tried so far). I don't think the hellos dir is clearly
> > documented, or if it is, I missed it...
> 
> My expectation was, that the  entries in the friends.txt should be
> sufficient and no hostlist server is needed. I will check in the code.
>

Does that mean that friends.txt need to contain hello uris and NOT just
the public keys?

This is not really documented either, at least sufficiently for my
feeble mind.