3. A minor question regarding hosting.

A minor question regarding hosting.

  • R

    I looked how my node is performing on hosting and found out this:
    RPC Stats:
    Error Calls: 8
    Unrecognized Calls: 3
    Download Calls: 0
    Renew Calls: 0
    Revise Calls: 0
    Settings Calls: 25058
    FormContract Calls: 8

    I'm not wondering about the small FormContract calls in comparison to Settings calls as I'm offering only 50GB (yet testing things out on a live system).

    I wonder about the "Error calls". I looked into the host.log and see:
    incoming RPCFormContract failed: contract verification failed: renter proposed a file contract with a too-long duration

    There is a single one renter (from one IP) offering me contracts (all 8 FormContract calls) that my host refuses to accept.

    The question is- are renters really so dumb and asking for a contract that they know exceeds the duration?
    Or do renters not see my offered maxduration parameter?
    Or is it not a real renter?

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  • M

    have a look at: link topic/902

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  • R

    @menace_one
    Yes, I looked at that post. But there is only guesses about a "rogue renter" and no answers to questions...

    My questions are-
    are renters really asking for a contract that they know exceeds the duration?
    Or do renters not see my offered maxduration parameter?
    Or are the log entries " renter proposed a file contract with a too-long duration" misleading?

    I do not understand why should one offer something exceeding the constraints set by other party if we are talking about machine to machine market and not the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul...

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  • R

    Regarding the "rogue renter" I think this looks like one:
    incoming RPCFormContract failed: contract finalization failed: consensus conflict: provided transaction set has prereqs, but is still invalid: transaction spends a nonexisting siacoin output

    Or is that problem with "nonexisting siacoin" on my side?
    I don't believe it's my host lacking siacoins as I transfered 75k for the collateral.

    Regarding the previous (renter proposed a file contract with a too-long duration) question, is there a way to see what was (still is) being offered?
    It could be that someone is really looking for a host offering a long time storage contract, maybe at a higher price. I could increase the duration but then I need to know how that influences my collateral.
    For example if I set a duration for 3 years (36 months). Someone forms a contract, uploads a terabyte.
    My collateral gets locked. For how long? How much (collateral/TB x 36)?
    Then the renter deletes his data from my host. Is my collateral freed? Or still is locked till that 3year contract expires?
    Is my hosts terabyte reserved for that contract (for 3 years) and cannot be used by another renter?

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