Re: [Help-gnunet] Discouraging results

[John E. Kreznar]

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Christian Grothoff <address@hidden> writes:

> So either you have some really rare configuration (non-i386
> architecture, gcc-3.5 :-) ...

That machine is a Pentium 166.  It has gcc 2.95.4 installed, but the
gnunet and libextractor are from pre-compiled Debian packages.

> ... or broken hardware (memory being my favourite; did you run
> memcheck/memtest anytime in the last 2 months? do other programs
> crash in funny ways, too?).

Hmm.  Actually, there were some "memory events" caused by attempts a
couple of weeks ago to run a configuration of gnunet which was grossly
out-sized for that 16 MB machine.  These were manifested by messages
like

Oct 17 18:52:24 iflig kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed 
(gfp=0x1d2/0)
Oct 17 18:52:24 iflig kernel: VM: killing process gnunetd

So this idea is worth pursuing.  Thanks.

> > Could not bind to port 2087.  Is gnunetd running?
> > Oct 31 23:32:44 'bind' failed at gnunet-check.c:1029 with error: Address
> > already in use Oct 31 23:32:44 Failure at logging.c:297.
> > Aborted

> Well, RTFM: do not run gnunet-check together with gnunetd (see: bind
> failed).

Actually, man gnunet-check mentions no such restriction.  I
interpreted the bind failure as a failed attempt by gnunet-check to
connect to gnunetd.  I even confirmed with netstat -l that there was a
listener on port 2087.

However, this may all be moot.  It begins to appear that GNUnet was
never intended as an alternative to anonymous remailers, nym servers,
web-to-mail gateways, and postings to alt.anonymous.messages for
purposes such as anonymous web surfing.  What is a good paper that
gives an overview of GNUnet's goals and means?

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 John E. Kreznar address@hidden 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
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