Posted by gregfarr on 10/21/05 03:34

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:20:23 -0700, -Angela-
<TarapiaTapioco@jetmail.com> wrote:

>On 20 Oct 2005 11:53:05 GMT, "fred-bloggs"
><fred-bloggs@hahahotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>-Angela- <TarapiaTapioco@jetmail.com> wrote in
>>news:22ldl15k7e4kdjdhiaq05jk1qhgfs5t93q@4ax.com:
>>
>>> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:12:28 -0700, gregfarr <gregfarr@comcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Just minutes age I was watching winmx at the time, the bottom just
>>>>dropped out of the bandwidth. The Primary's started changing from 6 to
>>>>5 to 3, several of the up loaders with cancelled out, my d/l's went
>>>>from a 100 down to almost nothing. This has happened before, just not
>>>>while I was looking. I'm cable comcast.
>>>>
>>>>Greg
>>>>http://gregsplace.50megs.com
>>>>http://www.picturetrail.com/fugitive1
>>>
>>> Check your bandwidth graph when this is happening. You'll probably
>>> see a huge spike on your outgoing WPN packets. This would indicate
>>> that you are hosting a fake / flooder (secondary) that has sent their
>>> results from someones' search, and you being the priamary they are
>>> served by, your connection just suffered a UDP packet storm that
>>> overwhelmed (killed) your TCP connections.
>>
>>I believe the spike is actually *incoming* WPN UDP packets, which would
>>imply that one of your secondaries has searched for a fake file. You are
>>actually being flooded by your primaries :(
>
>Fred, You are right, it is the *incomming* that suffers. Same result
>though, connections get kicked. Usually can only happen so severe as
>to kill connections when the flooder is on your system. A flooder
>searched through your system getting results from another primary you
>are connected to will kill that primary, not you.
>>
>>> I keep saying it, and nobody is listening: Do *NOT* trust the patches
>>> and Dll's to protect you from the flooders. You have more than your
>>> TCP connections to loose. Use your own firewall and enter the TCP
>>> blocks I posted before here:
>>>
>>> news:jbj3l1hn4ih1mje1015incs1quo9pbup0r@4ax.com
>>>
>>
>>The floods will only be prevented if EVERY primary refuses connection to
>>ALL fakers - unlikely, unfortunately. Even if *everyone* ran a filtering
>>dll it would only take 1 unfiltered address to compromise the network.



The Sygate I have can use the update facility, if it's installed
properly. Problem is, understanding where in the Reg to install, and
get this file, called for After installation, import the "offline.reg"
to registry to disable the online registration, then use our keygen
to generate the serial number for registration.


Greg
http://gregsplace.50megs.com
http://www.picturetrail.com/fugitive1

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