Hey y'all -
We've made some progress today in troubleshooting the Peoples Open
Network outage issue.
I found the BYOI office hours today real useful to figure more of this
exitnode stuff out, and run some tests.
Here's some things that happened today:
1. Using a script "create_exitnode.sh", an exit node was creating on a
digital ocean droplet in < 5min (see
https://github.com/jhpoelen/exitno
de)
2. At least three nodes (two at sudoroom and one at someones house)
were able to tunnel and mesh through the "test" exit node using <https:
//github.com/jhpoelen/exitnode/#configure-home-node-to-use-exit-node>.
3. Shared results with
exit.sudomesh.org operators Juul and Yar via htt
ps://github.com/sudomesh/bugs/issues/8
Am hoping to bundle the steps to create an exitnode into a guide of
sorts that helps to build a PON-like network from scratch.
I imagine we can use this guide internally for sharing how stuff works
and for troubleshooting. Other folks can use it as a example of how to
build a mesh network with VPN-like tunneling.
So, if you don't want to wait any longer for the exitnode to get going,
you can always (temporarily) create your own . . .
Curious to hear thoughts / comments,
thx,
-jorrit
On Thu, 2018-02-08 at 16:22 -0800, Jorrit Poelen wrote:
Hey Everyone -
> > As you probably know, the exit node of the People's Open Network
(PON) has been malfunctioning for about a week now, causing the
network from behaving properly.
> > We've been gathering evidence here
https://github.com/sudomesh/bugs/i ssues/8 and are trying to reproduce the issue in
an isolated
environment. This involves setting up an exit node from scratch.
> > > > > > I am making slow
progress despite help from others because I am
learning as I go, trying to document
my progress in reproducible
setup scripts at
https://github.com/jhpoelen/exitnode . If this leads
to anything, I am hoping we can consolidate this with the existing
(outdated) documentation and incorporate into our growing collection
of guides.
> If you feel inspired to help with this, please
don't hesitate to
reach out to me or any other member familiar with the setup.
> > What I am learning from this is that sharing
knowledge (incl. nuts
and bolts) about how PON works is probably more important than
PON
itself.
-jorrit