[volunteergrid2-l] New Node

[Brad Rupp]

On 1/31/2011 7:28 AM, Shawn Willden wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Brad Rupp <bradrupp at gmail.com
> <mailto:bradrupp at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     That is a great idea Shawn.  Done.
>
>
> Cool!
>
> One suggestion.  Can you set up another node (with storage server
> disabled) whose tub port is firewalled and make that node's welcome page
> accessible but protected behind a proxy?
>
> The reason it's a good idea to set up a poorly-connected node like that
> is because then any other poorly-connected nodes will show as red.  The
> way Tahoe works is that if either one of a pair of nodes can reach the
> other, then they have bidirectional communication.  But we really want
> all nodes to be fully visible, so to verify that we need to check it
> from a node that is not fully visible.  I'm not sure if I explained that
> well.

I can look into this, but it is going to be a bit before I can get to it.

>
>     - I am unable to host this over SSL right now.  I don't think that
>     should be a big deal.
>
>
> Not huge, but it would be nice.  What's the obstacle?  A self-signed
> cert should be fine.

I'm running another app over SSL.  Virtual hosting under Apache only 
supports one cert for all virtual hosts.  The subject name would be 
wrong and cause a browser warning on top of those you get with self 
signed certs.

>
>     If we don't care about IE, I can get rid of the vg2 mapping.
>       Firefox and Chrome work fine either way.
>
>
> I certainly don't care about IE.

I don't care about IE either.  I will send another e-mail out about this 
so we can get a consensus.

>
> --
> Shawn
>
>
>
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