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Posted by 1 on 09/18/05 23:42
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 23:14:38 GMT, Rusty Wallace
<jrustyw@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>So I have several downloads and uploads running just fine. I have
>several dozen people waiting in my queue and I am waiting in a bunch
>of queues as well. My connection does not drop in any way I can see,
>the downloads all continue just fine - but periodically I will start
>losing all my queued requests and everyone in my upload queue will
>lose me. For several minutes I'll be unable to join any queues or
>browse/search effectively. Then it all returns to normal and I'll
>start picking up queue entries for upload and download.
>
>To emphasize - I do not lose active downloads or uploads when this
>happens. It appears to be completely independent of occassionally
>getting disconnected from the network.
>
>It's a very frustrating problem as I lose all those low queue
>positions and have to start all over again.
>
>Any ideas about what might be going wrong?
You are connected as a secondary. Someone else is doing what "unknown
user" is doing here... news:432DA494.C836468B@somewhere.com (1)
which is causing the primary user to whom you are connected, to lose
their WinMX connection due to TCP timeout error (because their primary
connection is destroyed by a UDP packet storm caused by allowing fake
searches to run their course). After the fake search ends, the
primary user you were connected to will re-connect through Frontcode
and begin to aquire other primary and secondary connections again.
Your system will have already contacted Frontcode for a new primary as
yours vanished. When you change primary servers, you will have a new
ID number that makes you a totally different user, cutting the link
you had to all who were in your Q and all the Q's you may have been
participating in.
If you see hundreds or thousands of users comming in on your search,
*Stop* the search and *Close* the search window... quickly. You'll
know the fakes as they have nobody in Q and there will be just too
many of them to be authentic. There is also little delay in obtaining
search results when fake users are involved. They appear quite
quickly as the system didn't have to look very far to find them and
they have many files at each location to deliver in a search.
Do a new search with a filter such as 'filename -documents' The
-documents will not allow files contained in a Documents and Settings
named folder to be delivered to you. Most of the fakes use the
Documents and Settings folder to distribute the fake search results.
(1)
From above.. news:432DA494.C836468B@somewhere.com .....
"1. Search as you normally would. Let them all load (some newer
files might show over 10,000 hits)"
This will crash a primary sever nearly every time.
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