Re: where do I find extra peers?

[Mateusz Viste]

Hello Jacki,

On 25/08/2020 11:50, TheJackiMonster wrote:
> as far as I know you don't need to be connected to as many peers as
> possible. For many services it won't really matter to reach specific
> peers.

I suppose so, yes - but I would still expect to "see" more than 5 
nodes... Is gnunet-peerinfo providing more peers for you? It is 2 days 
that I run gnunet now, but still didn't learn of any other peer, and 
gnunet-search is still unable to find any file on the network. Is 
gnunet-search working for you? (I mean - does it return any result for 
any possible query?)
I also tried publishing a random file of few KBs just to see how it 
goes, but this is also stuck since yesterday.

> If you want to establish connections to specific peers you can do this
> using the hello-string which you can optain with `gnunet-peerinfo -g`
> from your own peer and others can use it with `gnunet-peerinfo -p
> $HELLO_STRING`.

That would be nice - and maybe I'd learn some other peers from that peer 
via DHT... Unfortunately, I do not know anybody on gnunet, so I am 
limited to using the public hostlists.

best,
Mateusz




> On Mon, 2020-08-24 at 17:04 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to run gnunet, but my installation struggles at finding
> > peers. peerinfo returns this:
> >
> > $ ./gnunet-peerinfo
> > Peer `M11ETFR5QFZ8KKVHHEDKTKWZEW00QD50NZAKZB7965MTW6HNGGSG'
> >
> > Peer `FJMDCD66A71E340AHAZ641K8N1KQ54DSMJ212K817M9613BCTDDG'
> >           Expires: Tue Aug 25 05:00:09 2020
> > tcp.0.124.ip-51-178-50.eu:2086
> >
> > Peer `V8XXK9GAN5ZJFRFQP8MQX3D83BZTSBQVHKWWD0JPE63Z821906EG'
> >           Expires: end of time     tcp:12:0
> >           Expires: end of time     tcp:24:0
> >           Expires: end of time     http_client:34:0
> >           Expires: end of time     http_client:59:0
> >           Expires: end of time     https_client:35:0
> >           Expires: end of time     https_client:60:0
> >
> > Peer `Y924NSHMMZ1N1SQCE5TXF93ED6S6JY311K0QT86G9WJC68F6XVZ0'
> >           Expires: end of time     tcp.0.127.0.0.1:2086
> >           Expires: end of time     tcp.0.gnunet.in.tum.de:2086
> >           Expires: end of time     tcp.0.gnunet-stun.in.tum.de:2086
> >           Expires: end of time     tcp.0.172.18.0.1:2086
> >           Expires: end of time     tcp.0.172.17.0.1:2086
> >           Expires: end of time     tcp.0.172.20.0.1:2086
> >           Expires: end of time     tcp.0.172.19.0.1:2086
> >           Expires: end of time     tcp.0.172.22.0.1:2086
> >           Expires: end of time     tcp.0.[::1]:2086
> >           Expires: end of time     tcp.0.[sam.net.in.tum.de]:2086
> >
> > Peer `DSTJBRRKZ8TBW3FGK6B0M5QXWT9WYNZ45H5MCV4HY7ST64Q8T9F0'
> >           Expires: end of time     udp:10:0
> >           Expires: end of time     udp:10:0
> >           Expires: end of time     udp:22:0
> >           Expires: end of time     tcp.0.gnunet.in.tum.de:2086
> >           Expires: end of time     tcp.0.gnunet-stun.in.tum.de:2086
> >           Expires: end of time     tcp.0.[sam.net.in.tum.de]:2086
> >           Expires: end of time     tcp:12:0
> >           Expires: end of time     tcp:24:0
> >           Expires: end of time     http_client:34:0
> >           Expires: end of time     http_client:58:0
> >           Expires: end of time     https_client:35:0
> >           Expires: end of time     https_client:59:0
> >
> > Peer `RM4WTVSQAA38GFK2D7NDC20KKNTXRTTVDW8F8VSFGTKDYX4BSZFG'
> >           Expires: Tue Aug 25 04:57:44
> > 2020        tcp.0.104.152.211.250:2086
> >
> >
> > This is 5 peers in theory, but gnunet-statistics reports only 1
> > active
> > tcp connection. This doesn't seem like much, right? I have enabled
> > DHT
> > peers discovery (OPTIONS = -b -e in hostlist section of the config
> > file), but without improvement.
> >
> > I suppose gnunet is running on more than 5 computers. How could I
> > add
> > extra peers?
> >
> > Mateusz