[tahoe-dev] dynamic ip

sickness sickness at tiscali.it
Sat Jun 15 17:05:41 UTC 2013


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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