Re: [Mldonkey-users] Investigation: No download for some, full downloads for the other

[Neil Sedger]

Michael Panteleit wrote:
> MLdonkey <address@hidden> writes:

> > * Old sources: these sources have once been indicated as sources for
> >   the file. We couldn't connect to them to verify that, or at least,
> >   we could'nt connect to them for a long period. We should test them
> >   anyway, maybe once every 6 hours ?  They are removed after the
> >   max_sources_age delay.
>
>
> Why not remove them after 12 hours if we have enough other sources? In
> Germany a really large amount of users get a new IP every 24 hours due
> to a forced disconnect by their provider. Is this true for other
> countries?
No... in the UK it differs on your broadband ISP...
AFAIK all of them don't force a disconnect ever.

Some give you a fixed IP forever, some charge extra for this.

Some 'lease' you an IP - like a DHCP server does - so you can disconnect but 
then get the same IP back if you connect within say a week. This is what I've 
got and I've had the same IP I was first randomly given. Although this isn't 
guaranteed to not change (you have to pay extra for that guarantee!)

Some give you a random one every time you reconnect.


It has a downside... once I ran edonkey-server by mistake... and was still 
getting connection attempts days later because I couldn't change IP ;-)




How about making the 'test them every 6 hours' a parameter?

Maybe max_sources_age should be treated differently depending on how many 
other sources there are... if we find absolutely no other sources maybe we 
should hang on to these sources a bit longer just in case... and if there are 
lots of others we don't want this one taking up a max_sources slot...


Neil