holesail-share v1.4.7

Holesail-share

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Overview

Holesail-share is a simple and flexible solution for creating a distributed hash table (DHT) server. It allows you to share your local files to the network, making it accessible to other nodes.

Installation

Before using holesail-share, make sure you have Node.js installed on your system. You can download Node.js from the official website: https://nodejs.org/en/download/

Once Node.js is installed, you can install Holesail-share Server using npm (Node Package Manager):

npm i holesail-share -g

Usage

To start a local Holesail-share Server, use the following command:

holesail-share --live port

Replace port with the desired port number you want to expose to the network on which your file system will work.

This will give you a seed to connect to, use that to acess this server from anywhere:

holesail-share --connect SEED --port

Available options:

--live PORT: Create a tunnel on this port

--connect SEED: Connect to a tunnel using the seed generated from --live command

--host ADDRESS: Default address is 127.0.0.1, use it to change address to localhost or other

--port PORT: Use this option with --connect to set a custom port instead of the default port 8989

Example

To start a local holesail-share Server on port 8080, use the following command:

holesail-share --live 8080

Help

If you need help or want to see the usage instructions, use the following command:

holesail-share  --help

Graceful Goodbye

Holesail-share Server includes graceful goodbye functionality, which ensures that the server is properly shut down when you close the terminal or interrupt the process.

License

Holesail-share Server is released under the GPL-3.0 License. See the LICENSE file for more information.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

Acknowledgments

Holesail-share is built using the following open-source projects:

• hypertele: https://github.com/bitfinexcom/hypertele
• holepunch: https://holepunch.to
• holesail-server: https://github.com/holesail/holesail-server)

and other node packges.