[GNUnet-developers] Re: GNUnet suggestion...

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Friday 11 October 2002 03:03 pm, you wrote:
> I noticed today that I keep getting hung up on that TCP timeout bug you
> found yesterday.  Of course that needs to be fixed, but I noticed something
> else as well...
>
> One IP that repeatedly make me have to wait for the TCP timeout is the DHCP
> address that my laptop was assigned yesterday at school.  Shouldn't a day
> be long enough for all the nodes in the system to learn about and remove a
> dead node from the list of GNUnet nodes?  Does GNUnet have a mechinism for
> completely removing a dead node from the system?  If so, how long will it
> take? how long will it take on a larger scale, say 1000 nodes?  On a large
> scale where nodes are coming and going often not removing dead nodes might
> add quite a bit to the over head.

The time that your advertised IP is going to be considered valid is specified 
in your gnunet.conf (timeout option). So if you advertise 1 week, 1 week it 
is. There is currently no cap on the time that can be advertised, but you are 
right, we probably want to introduce some cap at some point -- but what would 
be a reasonable is up for debate. 

Christian
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