Subj : nlupd and daily nodelists
To   : Fabio Bizzi
From : Kai Richter
Date : Thu May 13 2021 18:22:32

Hello Fabio!

12 May 21, Fabio Bizzi wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

 MD>> No, nltools were developed many years before the daily nodelist
 MD>> appeared and did not change since then.

 FB> Well, it's time to change it, isn't it? :P

Why? What for? Do you know what a official weekly nodelist based tracker would do with routed netmails to new added nodes of the daylist?

Did you weigh up the pros against the cons?

Weekly diff is ~5k, daily list is ~190k x 7. The data efficiency, power consumtion and disk wear is decreased by 26600%.

nlupdate looks to be designed to fetch a diff from the fileecho. This is done to protect the diff files via tic file security. The 7 day block looks like a protection against revision mismatch:

3148 30. Apr 11:11 NODEDIFF.A20
3618  7. Mai 00:19 NODEDIFF.A27
2263 29. Jan 01:05 NODEDIFF.A29
2297  5. Feb 01:05 NODEDIFF.A36

With list 127 on day 130 the diff file A29 would be selected but it does contain diff 029 and not 129 -> error. The correct next diff would be A34.

Regards

Kai

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