Re: network from scratch

t3sserakt <[email protected]> Tue, 1 Nov 2022 12:28:36 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.network.gnunet.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 01.11.22 13:24, [email protected] wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 12:18:21PM +0000, t3sserakt wrote:
>> 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.
My fault. You are right. Only the peer public keys.

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