Re: [Help-gnunet] Thoroughly frustrated.

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Wednesday 17 July 2002 01:06 am, Bram Kivenko wrote:
> This is my first try at GNUnet, and I have to tell you I was thoroughly
> frustrated.  The largest problem was:
>
> gnunetd: WARNING: Not connected to any hosts, can not forward query.
>
> There was no indication that gnunet was attempting to connect to any
> hosts.  For the longest time nothing was happening.  I almost gave up.
> Finally I had to find a program that could display UDP packets to
> alleviate my fears.  Eventually something happened.
>
> I am certain a better message can be offered to the user.  It is a very
> discouraging response to a new user.
>
> Mercury

Hmm. I think this ties in with the (long-standing) request for adding a 
logging facility. Of course, there is still the question why you could not 
connect to any other host (behind NAT? firewall?).

Are you aware of the gnunet-stats program? This one already gives quite a bit 
of information in terms of what is happening. 

Christian
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