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Posted by George Hester on 09/18/05 17:58
<1@odds.com> wrote in message
news:565ri15ojtpv3kr5jdd5bkpilt0e62oo68@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 08:28:34 GMT, "George Hester"
> <hesterloli@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> ><1@odds.com> wrote in message
> >news:ilopi19n9qnqmrp3f49o3tldkmr5pt5jh5@4ax.com...
> >> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 01:06:31 GMT, "George Hester"
> >> <hesterloli@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> ><snip>
> >
> <snip too>
> >
> >Really odds these file names were bogus. I asked the trader about them
and
> >he said he never heard of these groups or songs. I sure as hell didn't
> >either. So what Johnny Noname - Singing the Blues in Kansas.mp3 is
floating
> >around on the Internet and decided we looked like good victims to attach
to?
> >I've never seen this before. You know if I tried to start one of these
> >although it was hooked to a valid partial in my shares it immediately
went
> >File Unavailable. Most of those it wanted to complete he did have whole.
> >But they were just showing white in his shares.
> >
> >I have looked again in his browse. They seem to be gone. He is no
longer
> >on line I just keep it up for the hashes. Some are valid but maybe I
should
> >just close this out? He's got too many mp3s for some one that said he
> >wasn't sharing any. I believe this person I've known him quite a while.
>
> The file search and browse results use the UDP protocol, which has no
> error correction so is somewhat unreliable. Another computer out
> there may have picked up on your search request (as a result of a UDP
> error) and responded, or your mystery source may have been connected
> as a primary and their computer got out of sync on what it was sending
> you, and gave you results of one or more secondary users that were
> passing UDP datagrams through the mystery source machine at the same
> time. If your mystery machine has a persistant yet non-fatal (at the
> moment) memory error, then WinMX could have been mis-directed to the
> extent it showed you files from one source that actually exist on
> another although it would be difficult to actually connect and
> download those files shown in error.
> This can also happen if the user has so little memory in their
> computer that Windoze is running programs out of the system swap file
> and a disk error happens at a vulnerable location. This may not be
> such a critical error as to cause a program or system crash, but it
> could cause unpredictable behavior in Mx or other applications.
>
> George, my advice is to never walk around barefoot. With your luck,
> you would certainly find a nail just under some leaves. ;o(
Thx odds that sounds reasonable and from what I can tell described the
situation perfectly. I just never seen this before and haven't seen it
since but my trader has not been back yet. As for barefeet well yes you may
have something there.
--
George Hester
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