Re: [Help-gnunet] Node makes lots of connections to itself

[Steven]

On Tuesday 13 April 2004 12:51 am, Christian Schulte wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:39:37 -0700
>
> Steven <address@hidden> wrote:
> > My node makes lots of connections to itself.  Is this normal?
> >
> > I'm behind a hardware nat, I loaded the nat transport, I set LIMITED to
> > "no" and I forwarded the apropriate port.  Could there still be a config
> > problem?
>
> One possibility i could imagine is that your node lost its private part of
> the hostkey (.hostkey) and regenerated its keypair. That would possibly
> leave an old public key in $GNUNET_HOME/data/hosts which carries your own
> address information. But there would still be the problem that you need to
> connect to yourself via the nat machine. So its just an idea.
> If you dont care to remove the files in data/hosts/ and your private key,
> give it a try.
>
>   Chris
>

This only happens when My node has been running for a while, but when I run:

netstat -anp

I get connections that say something like:

local address                           foreign address

127.0.0.1:3423                          127.0.0.1:2086          ESTABLISHED   
gnunetd

Missing a few fields because I'm doing it from memory, but you get the idea.  
The connection is just a loopback connection, so it never leaves my local 
box, and doesn't need to go through my NAT.

my tcp: blacklist is left at it's default setting which includes 127.0.0.1/8, 
so I don't know why my node is still accepting connections from it.  (what is 
the "/8" part?)

I think that connections with my own node eventually take over because they 
won't break.  (and route pretty fast :)

I'm taking your advice now, and am deleting everything in /data/hosts.  I'll 
let you know what happens.  

Thanks!