<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks,<br>
Eric</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 15, 2013 11:05 AM, "sickness" <<a href="mailto:sickness@tiscali.it">sickness@tiscali.it</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 06:34:03PM +0200, Anders wrote:<br>
><br>
> Dear list!<br>
><br>
> I am slightly uncertain about the inner workings of the tahoe grid when it comes to (storage)nodes with dynamically assigned ip addresses.<br>
> 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?<br>
><br>
> Best regards,<br>
> --<br>
> Anders <<a href="mailto:anders.genell@gmail.com">anders.genell@gmail.com</a>><br>
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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 :)<br>
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<br>
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...<br>
...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... ;)<br>
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