Re: [Mldonkey-users] Re: Is mldonkey guilty of DDoS?

[Atarius]

On Friday 31 October 2003 20:05, spiralvoice wrote:
> On Fr 11 Jul 2003 07:49:18p Brett Dikeman wrote:
> >>http://gnutella2.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=30
> >>http://forums.shareaza.com/showthread.php?threadid=3535
> >
> > Perhaps everyone should disable support/turn off gnutella2
> > networking until this is cleared up.
>
> In src/networks/gnutella/gnutella2Redirector.ml, line 62
> there is a 60 minutes interval for accessing the G2 redirector.
> Is this number ok or should we do it less often?

Hi donkey-tamers,

... But mldonkey (as of 2.5.4) tries to connect every 60 seconds! You can 
easily see it with "mlnet --stdout": It counts down from 60 to 1 in intervals 
of 1 second. Having seen this and the threads about DDoSing the redirector, I 
disabled gnutella2 so far.

Now, as you pointed to the right source file, it's pretty obvious where the 
glitch is. One should probably patch it like e.g.:

--- gnutella2Redirector.ml      9 Oct 2003 12:23:09 -0000       1.7
+++ gnutella2Redirector.ml      31 Oct 2003 21:28:05 -0000
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@

 let connect () =
   if !!g2_enabled && !next_redirector_access < last_time () then begin
-      next_redirector_access := last_time () + 60;
+      next_redirector_access := last_time () + 3600;
       List.iter (fun url ->
           let module H = Http_client in
           let r = {



Btw., does anybody know good redirectors? I vaguely remember that some time 
ago I got curious and tried to connect to some of them (directy via wget), 
but they were picky about the client brand they would talk to, and refused 
the requests if I did not identify as one of the "real" gnutella clients.

Cheers,
        Atarius


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