Re: [Help-gnunet] Is my reputation hurting me?

[John McCain]

Just to answer the question, I ran a node for a brief period a few months ago, 
but shut it down because searching didn't seem to work at all.  I guess 
basically the issue was lack of content.

On Sunday 13 July 2003 02:14 am, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> On Freitag, 11. Juli 2003 20:02 Lance Simmons wrote:
> > For the first week or so I had a gnunet node running, I was able to
> > retrieve files pretty easily.  Since then, though, things have really
> > slowed down.  Now it seems that gnunet-download can run for days at a
> > time without retrieving anything, no matter what file I'm requesting.
> >
> > Is my reputation hurting me?
>
> No, it can not (compared with a new node). The trust system can only hurt
> if other people have more trust now than you do, but a fresh node will
> always do worse. I would suspect that the network is different now.
> Typically, I see it about double in size after a release and then slowly go
> back down to about a dozen nodes. I suspect this is people trying it and
> not keeping the peers running (why they don't keep them running? maybe
> stability, maybe
> disinterest, maybe that they don't like it, maybe that it takes too many
> resources). Either way, if the network grows larger, this effect of
> significant changes to the network over time should get smaller.
>
> While Igor's remarks about search-results are of course correct, I would
> suspect that we see the problem more pronounced because the network is so
> small (and thus the possibilities for replication are minimal).  Either
> way, I concur with his diagnosis that you don't receive files because the
> providing node went off-line.
>
> Christian
> P.S.: I'm leaving for Darmstadt (ECOOP) and then Las Vegas (DefCon) today,
> so I'll probably be slower at answering questions / bugreports for a while.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Help-gnunet mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnunet