[tahoe-dev] Newbie problems

[Paul Rabahy]

It actually looks like I have the introducer setup correctly, but my
storage nodes still need some work. You should be able to connect, but just
not access any storage.


On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Paul Rabahy <prabahy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I volunteer to become "Test Grid Wrangler". I setup a new introducer and
> hooked up a storage node to it.
> https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/TestGrid has been updated
> with the new introducer furl and public test directory.
>
> It still appears that I need to setup some more port forwarding or
> something because I cannot connect to it from outside my LAN. I'll try to
> do that this evening (Eastern Timezone).
>
> @Till, I haven't seen a setting for this. My main thought is that if a
> person was trying to abuse the system they could just break the file into
> many small chunks and upload them all. Hopefully once the accounting
> project is finished we will be able to set per-user storage limits.
>
> @Eric, Agreed. The test grid was the first place I went to quickly try out
> Tahoe-LAFS. Without it, I believe that I would have lost interest and tried
> to find a different product.
>
> @Greg, My plan is to have a public introducer, but each user will have to
> setup their own node. If another person sets up a public WUI, I don't know
> if there is much I will be able to do about it. We can cross that bridge
> if/when we come to it.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> "erpo41 at gmail.com" <erpo41 at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I liked the test grid when I was just getting started. If I had had to
>> set
>> > up my own introducer and server and client just to try it out, I
>> probably
>> > would have passed. I definitely would not have set up multiple VMs to
>> play
>> > with different values of n and h.
>> >
>> > To prevent abuse, we could just set the expiration time for files to 48
>> > hours.
>>
>> My impression is that the cause of the abuse (not fair, I know) is the
>> public gateway.  Once you need to set up a client to use it, the effort
>> becomes too high compared to other file distribution methods.  I found
>> the pubgrid very useful when getting started, and the public WUI not
>> really that useful.
>>
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