Re: [Help-gnunet] Building a new censorship circumvention tool: what do we need to know?

[Ivan Vilata-i-Balaguer]

Christian Grothoff (2017-02-22 18:32:47 +0100) wrote:

> On 02/22/2017 12:04 PM, Ivan Vilata-i-Balaguer wrote:
> > 
> > […] do you know about anyone who has run this to publish some
> > estimates (academic paper or informal) about the current size of the
> > network?
> 
> Well, we've not made a release in a while and the installation is
> non-trivial, so the GNUnet network is still rather small.  But it
> doesn't take a study to figure it out, just run:
> 
> $ gnunet-nse
> 1487784422756253 93.986384 6.554380 2.409871
> 
> 1487784422756253 Timestamp
> 93.986384 Current estimate (~94 peers)
>  6.554380 LOG2-of-estimate (raw value that was measured)
>  2.409871 std-dev of LOG
> 
> The result will be updated roughly hourly.
> 
> An academic paper about the method itself is here:
> 
> http://grothoff.org/christian/rrsize2012.pdf

Thanks for the info!  I've been running ``gnunet-nse`` for a while and
it seems to stick with only 2.0 peers, 1.0 LOG2 and 1.3 deviation.  Is
this normal, or maybe my node is failing to connect to other peers?
It's currently behind a NAT router with no port forwarding.

-- 
Ivan Vilata i Balaguer