New Public Service: Publically Accessible GNUnet Hostlist

Quick announcement. I'm running a publically accessible GNUnet hostlist at http://clehaxze.tw:9876/ due to me failing to bootstrap 3 new nodes today. I was experimenting and this issue really annoyed me. I don't know what happened with the default one. https://v15.gnunet.org/hostlist is down. But https://gnunet.io/hostlist is running correctly. That should be enough for nodes to botostrap.

Anyway, for GNUnet users seeing this post, you can point your hostlist daemon to use my server. I understand this is unencrypted HTTP. But a) that should't matter as bad actors will get stopped by GNUnet's crypto anyway and b) I'll fix it later.

Update: I don't think hostlist was the issue. gnuent-transort -m was showing some really weird errors. Nodes communicating but then the peer would just drop. I'm not sure what's going on. I'll need to try again from a different network.

How to use it

• Locate your GNUnet configuration file. It's usually located at ~/.config/gnunet.conf or /etc/gnunet.conf.
• Add the following lines or modify the existing settings

[hostlist]
SERVERS = http://clehaxze.tw:9876/
OPTIONS = -b -e

• Restart your gnuent daemon. gnunet-arm -r