Hostlist Servers

[David Kuehling]

Hi,

over the weekend I just noticed how difficult it can be to bootstrap a
gnunet node, when no hostlist servers are available.  The gnunet.org
site was down (maintainance?) and most of the other hostlists that came
up via Google were outdated or unavailable :(

So to help out in the future, I'm now running my own hostlist server:

http://mosquito.dyndns.tv/gnunet-hostlist/hostlist

Gnunet's contrib/ directory contained a simple CGI script doing the job,
but I wanted something that doesn't require CGI to minimize load on my
server.  

So I ended up with a cron-script that runs 4 times an hour, atomically
updating the hostlist file served by apache.  The required
scripts+config files and minimum documentation can be found here:

http://mosquito.dyndns.tv/freesvn/trunk/gnunet-hostlist

If anybody is interested in running a similar setup, just try

svn co http://mosquito.dyndns.tv/freesvn/trunk/gnunet-hostlist
sudo make install

That /might/ do the job.

BTW is there any central list of hostlist servers where I can add
myself?

cheers,

David
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[Nils Durner-4]

Hi David,

> over the weekend I just noticed how difficult it can be to bootstrap a
> gnunet node, when no hostlist servers are available.
Have your tried
    http://vserver1236.vserver-on.de/hostlist-074
?

> The gnunet.org
> site was down (maintainance?)
No, a snowstorm caused major power outages.

> So to help out in the future, I'm now running my own hostlist server:
>
> http://mosquito.dyndns.tv/gnunet-hostlist/hostlist
>  
Thanks!

> BTW is there any central list of hostlist servers where I can add
> myself?
>  
No.
I have added it to our reference config in our SVN.


Best,

Nils


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[David Kuehling]

>>>>> "Nils" == Nils Durner <ndurner@...> writes:

> Hi David,
>> over the weekend I just noticed how difficult it can be to bootstrap
>> a gnunet node, when no hostlist servers are available.
> Have your tried http://vserver1236.vserver-on.de/hostlist-074 ?

Yes, actually this was finally the hostlist that allowed me to bootstrap
my node.  But it took some time to find...

David
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