On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:48:05AM -0500, edgar wrote: > I used freenet.node.Main --config to create a freenet.conf file just now. > This is with freenet-0.5.0.3. I few bugments: > > 1) These options should be created in the config file but aren't. Even if > they are %'d out atleast a config-savy newbie would know they exist. > mainport.port > mainport.bindAddress > mainport.allowedHosts > > (Actually I don't know if you need bindAddress or not, people on the support > list say you do. What's the difference between bindAddress and > allowedHosts?) > > In addition, it would be nice if it asked you for the mainport.allowedHosts > (possibly also mainport.port and mainport.bindAddress) just as it does for > fcpHosts in --config routine. I would imagine it's atleast as common to be > accessing fproxy from another machine as it would be accessing fred via FCP. Well, not quite (frost uses FCP, and ~ half of freenet uses frost despite its being crap*). > > 3) When run on *nix, the config asks you about the windows installer and the > distribution. stuff. This is windows only right? Doesn't the windows > installer do this for you? Shouldn't these questions be removed from the > --config routine? No, this is for the Distribution Servlet, which when enabled provides something resembling a download mirror of freenet, but using locally generated seednodes - the idea is to make it easy to get freenet from somebody other than freenetproject.org, and use their seednodes; this makes a better network. > > 4) It would be really nice if storeSize could be specified in Megs or Gigs in > addition to straight bytes. e.g. The user could type 400M or 800M or 1G or > 6G or whatever. I thought we fixed this ages ago... will look into it > > I'm not being a complainer and I realize that none of these are necessarily > high priority, but these are what I noticed after doing a new config for the > first time in a while. > > edgar > * frost is crap because a) it's spammable, b) it uses non-redundant splitfiles and c) it sets a stupid mime type for them. -- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet/Coldstore open source hacker. Employed full time by Freenet Project Inc. from 11/9/02 to 11/11/02. http://freenetproject.org/
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