Re: network from scratch

[t3sserakt]

On 01.11.22 12:35, accounts-gnunet@holbrook.no wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 09:19:38AM +0000, t3sserakt wrote:
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> > > Message: 2
> > > Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:45:15 +0000
> > > From:accounts-gnunet@holbrook.no
> > > To: Martin Schanzenbach<mschanzenbach@posteo.de>
> > > Cc:accounts-gnunet@holbrook.no,help-gnunet@gnu.org
> > > Subject: Re: network from scratch
> > > Message-ID:<Y1/tixoD6+DkbxHV@holbrook.no>
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> > > Aha so adding -f to the gnunet-peer -s -g makes it output the hello.
> > >
> > > And that URI is accepted by gnunet-peer -p
> > >
> > > Now the peer is listed with gnunet-peer (-f)
> > >
> > > Now peer A and B has both peer A and B in their peerinfo lists.
> > >
> > > However, the peer A is still not being sent by the hostlist (after retstarting
> > > the nodes), still only the Y924 is being sent.
> > >
> > > Then I changed the URIs fromgnunet://hello-friend  tognunet://hello.
> > > Now the peers get sent with the hostlist.
> > I do not get why - in F2F mode - you are doing that. What is the content of
> > friends.txt?
> AFAIU, the friends.txt file is supposed to hold one public key per line
> of nodes that one allows connections from.
Means peer A has the hello of peer B in its friends.txt and vice versa?!
> > Can you please elaborate more on your use case.
> Simply to bootstrap a fully private network.
>
> What made it problematic was the forced connection of the bundled peer.
> That's why I tried F2F mode, but it turns out that comes with its own caveats in
> terms of how the modules behave.
>
> The solution was to, as Martin suggested, delete the entry in the
> $PREFIX/share/gnunet/hellos/* dir. When starting two peers from scratch
> they automatically find each other (at least when running on the same
> interface, that's what i tried so far). I don't think the hellos dir is clearly
> documented, or if it is, I missed it...

My expectation was, that the  entries in the friends.txt should be 
sufficient and no hostlist server is needed. I will check in the code.

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