[tahoe-dev] IP address changed, server now shows as offline

[Daira Hopwood]

On 26/06/13 18:14, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> My Internet connection was down for several hours yesterday; when it came up, 
> I had a different IP address. The box that runs Tahoe has been on all this 
> time. I just checked my client node; it says that hennatoes is not connected. 
> So I tried to start it, and it says it's already running. I have to stop and 
> restart it. The client node did not have to be restarted.

hennatoes is a storage server?

> Should a storage node recontact the introducer every so often in case its
> address changes?

foolscap sends periodic keepalive messages; an address change should cause
this to fail and the connection to be renegotiated. I don't know the details
well enough to tell why this may not have worked.

-- 
Daira Hopwood ⚥

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