-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ev'nin folks, time for our status update * Index 1) 0.4.2.4 & 0.4.2.5 2) 0.5 strategy 3) naming 4) eepsite roundup 5) ??? 1) 0.4.2.4 & 0.4.2.5 With last week's 0.4.2.4 release, we saw the deployment of some new load balancing algorithms to throttle tunnel participation based on actual bandwidth usage, along side peer profiling updates to select peers better through a wider sample of data. This has done pretty well at both choking tunnel participation when necessary and finding good peers when possible. Another major update in that release was a change to how we verify time synchronization - rather than just checking the time sync once during connection establishment, peers now periodically send messages to each other with their current time, and if the time received is too far skewed, the connection is dropped. This has helped kick a few routers who were skewing off the net until they recovered (which is good), and the vast majority of peers have been quite close to 'correct' (you can see the clock skew on the /oldconsole.jsp page) With that, the network has been performing pretty well, but we were still seeing the occational bulk disconnect. After some debugging we tracked down an unintentional and wholely unnecessary DNS lookup that occurred whenever a router sent a message to a peer who has a hostname specified. This not only wasted time, but it wasted time within the jobqueue - essentially injecting a whole lot of lag for no reason. With that lookup removed, the router handled much better under heavily congested situations, but we were still seeing those occational bulk disconnects. After digging around in the stats and logging, we came up with a plausible theory that explains why those disconnects have been occurring - blaming them almost entirely on those DNS lookups. To test that theory (and to deploy some other goodies), we pushed out the 0.4.2.5 release this afternoon. We'll see how it goes. * 2) 0.5 strategy As the roadmap [1] says, the next planned release is 0.5, including a revised tunnel pool and encryption/id technique. Avoiding a big explanation (see [2], [3], [4], and a tiny bit of [5]), we will do this in two stages - first revamp the tunnel pooling and push that out as an interim release, debugging what is necessary, then revamp the encryption/id stuff, pushing that out as 0.5. Oh, and of course, once the algorithms for the pooling and encryption updates are in pretty good shape, they'll be posted up here and on the website for review. Along the way though, there will probably be small bugfix releases unrelated to the 0.5 stuff, but I don't have any specifically planned. [1] http://www.i2p.net/roadmap [2] http://www.i2p.net/todo#tunnelId [3] http://www.i2p.net/todo#ordering [4] http://www.i2p.net/todo#tunnelLength [5] http://www.i2p.net/todo#batching * 3) naming Yikes, now that I think about it, I really don't want to talk about naming yet - just download Ragnarok's latest addressbook app (2.0.1) from http://ragnarok.i2p/, check out susi's web based manager at http://susi.i2p/susidns/manager, and dig through the stats at http://orion.i2p/ and http://susi.i2p/susisworld.html * 4) eepsite roundup There have been some notable developments on various eepsites worth mentioning: = http://frosk.i2p/ - I2PContent doc updates = http://orion.i2p/ - new form to submit your keys to = http://piespy.i2p/ - neat graphs of the irc channels = http://forum.fr.i2p/ - french language forum = http://pastebin.i2p/ - stop flooding the channels! Of course, there have also been updates to other sites as well, plus some other new sites - check orion.i2p and sort the list by 'last updated' to review (or just go to 'em all ;) 5) ??? I know there's lots more going on, so please, swing on by the meeting in a few minutes and we can chat 'bout stuff. =jr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFByItjGnFL2th344YRAmmOAKD+HxEAK+dqseq8ZCO5pjvW4EKImQCgkfwX 1KM+uQo7D6BjHAA99DwVyS0= =/T/b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ i2p mailing list i2p@i2p.net http://i2p.dnsalias.net/mailman/listinfo/i2p ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]