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Better self-service commands for DHT providing #10265

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2color opened this issue Dec 18, 2023 · 3 comments
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Better self-service commands for DHT providing #10265

2color opened this issue Dec 18, 2023 · 3 comments
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effort/hours Estimated to take one or several hours kind/feature A new feature P2 Medium: Good to have, but can wait until someone steps up topic/commands Topic commands

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@2color
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2color commented Dec 18, 2023

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  • My issue is specific & actionable.
  • I am not suggesting a protocol enhancement.
  • I have searched on the issue tracker for my issue.

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Newcomers to IPFS often face problems providing to the DHT. The most acute version of this problem is that beyond a certain threshold of CIDs to provide, the default Kubo configuration will simply not work and the node will not be able to make its CIDs discoverable.

To address these pains, there are ongoing efforts to improve the DHT implementation and how records are provided to the DHT.

This feature suggestion attempts to alleviate some of these pains with new self-service commands to provide more insight into the process and enable users to adjust their Kubo configuration based on the insights they observe.

Add LastRun NextRun to ipfs stats provide

The command currently outputs four fields:

TotalProvides:          58
AvgProvideDuration:     1.588721s
LastReprovideDuration:  42.698502s
LastReprovideBatchSize: 29

It would be useful to know when the last provide run was and when the next run will be. These could be named LastRun and NextRun (though these are just suggestions).

Another thing that would be helpful is to clarify the difference between TotalProvides and LastReprovideBatchSize in the usage.

Rename ipfs bitswap reprovide to ipfs dht reprovide

Having the DHT provide command as a subcommand of bitswap makes no sense. Moving it to be a subcommand of dht, i.e. ipfs dht reprovide would make more sense.

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Jorropo commented Dec 18, 2023

We deprecated most of ipfs dht in favor of ipfs routing because the DHT isn't the only routing system anymore.

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2color commented Dec 19, 2023

We deprecated most of ipfs dht in favor of ipfs routing because the DHT isn't the only routing system anymore.

Does Kubo support providing records to any other routing system? As far as I'm aware, the delegated routing API v1 doesn't specify how provider records are written.

@lidel lidel added topic/commands Topic commands P2 Medium: Good to have, but can wait until someone steps up effort/hours Estimated to take one or several hours labels Jan 30, 2024
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lidel commented Jan 30, 2024

Triage notes:

  • adding features proposes here sounds useful
    • Add LastRun NextRun to ipfs stats provide
    • Rename ipfs bitswap reprovide to ipfs dht reprovide ipfs routing reprovide
  • good opportunity to cleanup ipfs dht (remove deprecated dht commands aliased to routing)
    • 💭 /api/v0/dht/* may be used by legacy delegated routing, but its been deprecated for a while, and removing it finally makes people switch to /routing/v1

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effort/hours Estimated to take one or several hours kind/feature A new feature P2 Medium: Good to have, but can wait until someone steps up topic/commands Topic commands
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