Re: [Mldonkey-users] Not connecting to BitTorrent servers

[mldonkey]

Murphy wrote:
> I am using mlnet 2.5-16 but I dont ever get connected
> to BiTorrent servers (no BT servers show up in the
> Servers tab when I enable BT netowrk)

Hehe, that's because there ARE no servers in the BitTorrent network. :-))

> I am behind a firewall (masquerading) and mlnet works
> fine for EDonkey/Fasttrack etc.
>
> By the way if I copy a .torrent link (say from
> http://rd.mailshell.com/www.suprnova.org/) the BT file downlaod gets
> started and the speed is also good.
>
> Can anybody give any clues?

Bittorrent has something similar to a server (they call it 'tracker' for 
whatever reason), but this is only good for managing the sources for a 
known file, not for locating available files.
In the edonkey network, servers accomplish both of these functions and 
you need a server list for it to work. In BitTorrent, the server 
('tracker') for a given file is specified in the ".torrent"-file for the 
file you want to download (the one from the link you mention above).

> one more question: some day back I tried mlnet 2.5-17
> and lost all of my dowloaded chunks...it got recovered
> but not all. Shall I try 2.5-21? Any comments from
> your experince?

Maybe you should start a seperate thread for each topic.

Bye,
phoenix