Re: [Mldonkey-users] Test for low ID user with wrong IP address

[Jose Romildo Malaquias]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 09:42:35AM -0400, Joe Hill wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:27:15 +0200
> Steffen Solyga <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Citing Jose Romildo Malaquias (Tuesday, 2003/04/08  9:27)...
> > 
> > >   success ... your id should be 1890626248
> > > 
> > > But mldonkey have servers still reporting "ERROR: Your port 4662
> > > is not reachable. You have a LOWID".
> > 
> > This is normal, don't ask me why, heavy netload or something.
> > But it shouldn't happen with all servers. Set force_high_id = true
> > and let mldonkey find a server by itsown.
> > 
> > > How does my current IP is told to the eDonkey servers?
> > 
> > IP magics -- belongs to the proto spec.
> > Maybe I didn't get your question...
> > 
> > > Why now the connection test suceeds but eDonkey servers
> > > still are not able to reach the 4662 port?
> > > Any clues on how to solve this problem?
> > 
> > If http://www.thedonkeynetwork.com/connection_test succeeds with
> > IP and PORT, there _is_ a certain eDonkey-client listening at
> > IP:PORT, because the test uses the eDonkey protocol (it's not
> > just a simple tcp connection test). Maybe it's not _your_
> > eDonkey-client (port forwarding, mldonkey running twice)?
> > 
> > Steffen
> > 
> I didn't see this mentioned specifically, but what Steffen just said
> about port forwarding, Romildo, do you have a firewall (hardware or
> software) running? It sounds like you connect directly, but...

My internet service provider has a proxie that caches accesses,
and it was caching accesses to mldonkey from my machine. I have
talked to the support team, and they have solved the problem,
I believe.

Romildo
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Univ. Federal de Ouro Preto  http://uber.com.br/romildo