[ANNOUNCE] Bitmessage - P2P Messaging system based partially on Bitcoin

[bitpop]

I'm not getting an echo from BM-on1xQX25nxzULT6AdrxjsQKA1xmj1YsAf

[bitpop]

Why don't you let me port forward when using a proxy?

[bitpop]

please allow incoming connections while using proxy asap

[bitpop]

I'm getting frustrated

[bitpop]

I want to run a 24/7 node but you aren't letting me

[Atheros]

Why don't you let me port forward when using a proxy?

please allow incoming connections while using proxy asap

Most people use the proxy for anonymity so it would be a bad idea to allow incoming connections if the user is using a proxy.

[bitpop]

I'm using a ssh tunnel for a little anonymity, I'd like to port forward

[TECSHARE]

Bitmessage suddenly wont load after working for weeks. Any ideas?

[Atheros]

Bitmessage suddenly wont load after working for weeks. Any ideas?

Are you running the Windows EXE or the source code?

[3btc]

I also have problems: It won't connect to anything - according to Process Explorer it doesn't even try...

Had this happening already last when I had to use a friend's WLAN so I thought maybe it's blocking it (and didn't bother anymore then) but now I am at home and my ports are specifically opened.

Any pointers what to check (I had updated to 0.2.8 executable)?

[bitpop]

My 028 is perfect, 54 connections

[3btc]

Thanks for the quick response! In the meantime I digged up some older thread at

https://bitmessage.org/forum/index.php/topic,1461.0.html?PHPSESSID=be4dac950fd502fe6069e4a54490365d

and after reading I tried deleting my knownnodes.dat - now it's connecting again: SOLVED!

[stevegee58]

My theory is that if you leave your client online for several hours you'll collect a bunch of IP addresses of nodes that connect for a few minutes and then disconnect.  When you restart the client it goes though that list of IP addresses one at a time trying to connect.  Since most of them are now offline and it takes about 5-10 seconds per connect attempt, it could take a long time to find the first live one.

I don't know this for sure, but deleting knownodes.dat seems to force the client to first connect to a known, hard-coded IP address that's online all the time.  That would explain why deleting the file speeds up the cold connect process.

[Atheros]

My theory is that if you leave your client online for several hours you'll collect a bunch of IP addresses of nodes that connect for a few minutes and then disconnect.  When you restart the client it goes though that list of IP addresses one at a time trying to connect.  Since most of them are now offline and it takes about 5-10 seconds per connect attempt, it could take a long time to find the first live one.

I don't know this for sure, but deleting knownodes.dat seems to force the client to first connect to a known, hard-coded IP address that's online all the time.  That would explain why deleting the file speeds up the cold connect process.

Yes, that is perfectly accurate. The next Bitmessage version which I hope to release shortly will use 32 threads (and thus up to 32 half-open connections) to connect vastly faster; so this problem will go away.

[bitpop]

Very cool. Guess mine hasn't been restarted much.

[lenny_]

Hi,
I wasn't using BitMessage for couple of weeks. Is there any more support for Linux, or I still cannot use it on Linux as ready-to-go? Binaries, or something?
Why is only crappy Windows supported? 

[marcus_of_augustus]

Hi,
I wasn't using BitMessage for couple of weeks. Is there any more support for Linux, or I still cannot use it on Linux as ready-to-go? Binaries, or something?
Why is only crappy Windows supported? 

Works fine on linux ... what are you talking about?

[lenny_]

Couple of pages ago (#102), I was asking for help with Debian Testing compilation, as Testing is provided with python2.7, but there is no PyQt4.QtCore for python2.7, only for python3.0, which is not supported by Bitmessage.

But on Ubuntu it's working fine, thanks I just compiled binary and installed it without problems.
I will have to look again on my Debian laptop

[Atheros]

Couple of pages ago (#102), I was asking for help with Debian Testing compilation, as Testing is provided with python2.7, but there is no PyQt4.QtCore for python2.7, only for python3.0, which is not supported by Bitmessage.

But on Ubuntu it's working fine, thanks I just compiled binary and installed it without problems.
I will have to look again on my Debian laptop

Unfortunately Debian, Fedoria, (and thus others like Mint Linux) cannot run it as easily because their copies of OpenSSL doesn't include Elliptic Curve cryptographic functions for patent reasons.

[gollum]

I tested BitMessage today, it is amazing because its so easy to use!
Even my grandma could use it with a little help