[tahoe-dev] dynamic ip

[erpo41 at gmail.com]

If it helps, I've noticed that Tahoe seems to be designed for use in a
business environment where one entity controls all of the nodes, each node
has a static IP, there is very little down time, very little node turnover,
very high internode bandwidth compared to gateway-user bandwidth, etc.
There are some challenges in the "friends want to pool their extra storage"
use case.

Thanks,
Eric
On Jun 15, 2013 11:05 AM, "sickness" <sickness at tiscali.it> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 06:34:03PM +0200, Anders wrote:
> >
> > Dear list!
> >
> > I am slightly uncertain about the inner workings of the tahoe grid when
> it comes to (storage)nodes with dynamically assigned ip addresses.
> > I would have though that as long as the introducer is running on a
> static ip, all clients should be able to annouce their respective ip
> addresses if and when they change? Or does every node need a
> dyndns-equivalent account?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > --
> > Anders <anders.genell at gmail.com>
>
> I'm using tahoe-lafs on a LAN with dhcp for all the storage nodes and the
> clients (but not the introducer) and it works like a charm :)
> the only problem I face is to "find" a storage node if the tahoe proces
> doesn't start or if for some reason crashes since the status page doesn't
> show the last valid ip of offline nodes, just the ip of online nodes
> anyway I can look at the webpage of the status of the introducer to try to
> scavenge the last announced ip address of the storage nodes...
> ...then I've also implemented a dynamic dns which is updated by the dhcp
> server so when a client gets an addres it's name is consistend in the dns,
> so I have an offline list of all the nodes partecipating on the grid which
> I can check (it would be nice if the indroducer web page had an "inventory"
> utility like this, or simply an history of nodes and their addresses... ;)
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