[GNUnet-developers] Re: [Help-gnunet] Unknown hosts

[Christian Grothoff]

On Saturday 27 April 2002 11:23 am, you wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I seem to be getting a lot of debug print outs like:

You can always disable them in debugging.h.

> HELO: Handling HELO from  81. 65. 32.177: 2086.
> HELO: Bound identity B9988645F2F8838D0F06F2FBFBD3C6C35FB57E88 to  81. 65.
> 32.177: 2086 UDP: Handling message part (unencrypted) with size 520 and
> type 1. SKEY: Handling SKEY from  81. 65. 32.177: 2086.
> SKEY: Accepting sessionkey from host
> B9988645F2F8838D0F06F2FBFBD3C6C35FB57E88. Session key exchange denied, host
> B9988645F2F8838D0F06F2FBFBD3C6C35FB57E88 unknown!
>
> Is this a good thing or a bad thing (the unknown host that is)?

Well, its a thing that happens at the moment due to some minor bug. A
host discovers your hosts, sends you its own public key and a sessionkey in 
the same packet (to establish a session). Before your host is really done 
acknowledging the public key, it gets the session key and can't verify the 
signature (and drops it). Next time the other host tries, it will work, 
though. It's a known bug that has some slight impact on performance and will 
be fixed in the future.

Christian
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