Re: [Help-gnunet] I am about to give up trying - help

[Christian Grothoff]

On 05/10/2017 10:44 AM, Fungi4All wrote:
> 
>> > 3rd  Do resolvconf, avahi, samba, tor, openvpn related to problems we
>> > may be experiencing or is it something relating to system problems?
>>
>> GNUnet should work regardless of you using other services. Naturally,
>> forcing _all_ of your traffic through Tor or a VPN via some system
>> configuration may make it harder for other peers to connect to you
>> (especially as GNUnet may not correctly determine it's public IP address
>> in that situation), so in this case you may have some special fun
>> teaching GNUnet your network configuration.
> 
> It sounds like a special nightmare thinking about it, but I only meant
> if being installed not necessaraly running whether there are cross
> dependencies that alter each other's configurations.  I assume if gnunet
> is based on true stable IPs having IPs being replaced uncontrollably
> will result in an absolute mesh.  It is an interesting idea though if it
> was based on an onion dns and all had onion addresses.  Maybe I am
> clueless to how impossible this may be :)

Let's say I know at one person who does (or did) exactly what you just
described, and it's not me.  I'd like to make it easier to do so (and
generally work better), but the take-home message is that such scenarios
are what we like to support, and in theory can make to work, even though
they are definitively not for the faint of heart today.

> Yes, thank you.  I will take a new swing at it and report back if I face
> a wall again.
> It is night everywhere, the task is to seek the light!   - from the dark
> ages we live in.

Btw: another good place to ask for help is the #gnunet channel on
freenode...

Happy hacking!

Christian

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