Re: [Mldonkey-users] Re: starting mldonkey / allowed_ips / long queues

[Goswin Brederlow]

Sven Hartge <address@hidden> writes:

> Martin <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >> The big question is: Does emule keep you in the queue upon redial and
> >> recover your position upon reconnect?
> 
> > Didn read the sources but AFAIR there was a discussion on emule boards
> > that someone could collect all client_md4 from known clients and then
> > tries to connect to its source probing all those md4s to get the best
> > queue position. So all the time you waited in queue is *lost*.
> 
> Of course, this _is_ a valid concern.

Upon reconnect of a client test the old connect or even better give
out cookies in the queued packet. Only that cooky gets you your slot
back.

Another thing would be to see if an IP reconnects to fast, as it would
while testing md4s.

MfG,
        Goswin