FreeSpeechMe: taking days to get the blockchain loaded?

[philip_rhoades]

People,

From here:

http://www.freespeechme.org/download-an ... ostnorton1

it should have taken only about 5 hours to get the whole blockchain that should allow me to browse all the dot-bit web sites but it has been days now and I still can't get onto:

https://www.veclabs.bit

although I was able to get onto:

https://dot-bit.bit/How_To_Browse_Bit_Domains

after a few hours.

Tailing debug.log and grep for height, the last line I have is:

SetBestChain: new best=e6ca4161a88f114bc888 height=223600 work=3386320884422537781923091

Am I still missing something?

Thanks,

Phil.

[cassini]

SetBestChain: new best=e6ca4161a88f114bc888 height=223600

This is perfectly correct. If you want to know the current block height (block number), try
http://explorer.namecoin.info/stats/block_count.txt
or
http://namecha.in

https://www.veclabs.bit

I cannot resolve this one, either. Seems there is something wrong with Jeremy's veclabs server setup. For a quick .bit browsing test: http://nx.bit/

[biolizard89]

Hi Phil,

Thank you for pointing this out. It seems that veclabs.bit was pointing to an old server that I closed a couple months ago. I've just updated it to point to the current server; it should take effect in about 40 minutes (assuming I didn't make a mistake when updating it). Also note that the version of NMControl that is shipped with FreeSpeechMe is old enough that it doesn't support veclabs.bit (which uses a newer feature of the .bit spec); if you're using your own NMControl installation with FreeSpeechMe then it will work fine. I really need to update the FreeSpeechMe website to mention this, as it's probably confusing.

Thanks for testing!

[philip_rhoades]

cassini,

Thanks! and http://nx.bit does indeed work.

biolizard89,

https://www.veclabs.bit is still not working for me - "if you're using your own NMControl installation with FreeSpeechMe then it will work fine. I really need to update the FreeSpeechMe website to mention this, as it's probably confusing." - I am just getting started so I am not using any of my own anything so far . . good idea to update the doc . .

Regards,
Phil.

[biolizard89]

I added a note to http://www.freespeechme.org/list-of-wor ... -websites/ . That entire website is pending a rewrite, so hopefully that suffices for the moment. (Too much to do, too little time....)