File-Sharing Program Slips Out of AOL Offices

[JackSpratts]

Originally posted by sith
God I love this WASTE prog. I have been connected to a buddy of mine for the last 10 days and we get a constant 30ks ul and dl rate. Havent had a crash or error yet, pretty damn stable if u ask me.

yes sith it's very stable, i know of groups on that long or longer too. i've been on a small one (7-14 users) that's been running continuosly since the evening of june 8th. i'm in and out, on sometimes for a few hours, sometimes for a few days, but the group maintains cohesion and accessibility. sharing is minimal and so is open chat but it seems to go and go. maintenence isn't an issue. what is tho is initial connectivity. we're finding more and more users who have not been able to make that first connection, and we don't know why.

- js.

[Drakonix]

Sorry Folks -

I'm having problems and tried re-installing waste, so my public key has changed. The new one is:

WASTE_PUBLIC_KEY 20 1536 Drakonix
C825D67E88771695B6E2CD9CD47EE2097646FB6420C067029A98CF64C59C
7331106698CDA81FD8293D6FEB72BBE8AEB81ABFC0E5BCE0E88E85C3F3A1
39817E86860E05945431CA64F9A0B46A9A1DB76AF22B5182BB9FD2278A4B
CE451B52610E09315FDD5ABF7B5DF107ACACED1B210AD18AE70CD37AB1AE
8ADCEBEFAE925F0F8B131C99C941A9EB04D61D26D9EA2CEB566EE2F1C6E1
9DE8B7F9F9BBE308636465E3FC3BBCD0844C8604311853A33E4A23D3DC36
86B5F68073755B9D947F9D530003010001
WASTE_PUBLIC_KEY_END

[Jadesun]

[quote]Originally posted by Drakonix
[b]

Sorry Folks -

I'm having problems and tried re-installing waste, so my public key has changed.
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I'm certain, (at best) that all is done and entered right, but no connection yet either... I'll just keep trying and watching to see if anyone can figure this out.

PS Drak I love your caption:

<snip>
Copyright means the copy of the CD burned with no errors.
<end snip>

[Mazer]

It's weird, the way some people can connect and others can't. I noticed the first time I logged on I couldn't connect to pod even though I had his key and IP address. I had to connect to Jack's IP because I knew that he had my key. But now every time I log in I connect to pod's computer first, within a second or two of starting the program.

It must be in the way keys are propagated throught the network. A person on the net could import an other person's key, but that key will not be propagated until that person logs in. If you give your key to one person but try to connect to an other person you won't be able to. In our case, even though Jack is acting spokesman of the network, you'd have to give your key to pod before you try to connect to him. Or else Jack would have to publish his IP number and stay connected all the time.

What this program needs is the ability to assign one computer to act as a keyserver, and any time someone imports a new key then that key would be sent directly to the keyserver so it could accept incomming connections from the new user. Though I imagine this would make the network more vulnurable to intrusion: there would be a publicly known, non-firewalled portal that could be hacked, DoSed, or otherwise shut down. The network would still remain if that node was disconnected, but it would not grow very quickly unless a new keyserver was assigned.

[Jadesun]

Originally posted by sith
God I love this WASTE prog. I have been connected to a buddy of mine for the last 10 days and we get a constant 30ks ul and dl rate. Havent had a crash or error yet, pretty damn stable if u ask me.

Well PPPTTTTT

[Jadesun]

Originally posted by Mazer
A person on the net could import an other person's key, but that key will not be propagated until that person logs in. If you give your key to one person but try to connect to an other person you won't be able to.

No doubt that's my problem

[pod]

Originally posted by Mazer
It must be in the way keys are propagated throught the network. A person on the net could import an other person's key, but that key will not be propagated until that person logs in. If you give your key to one person but try to connect to an other person you won't be able to. In our case, even though Jack is acting spokesman of the network, you'd have to give your key to pod before you try to connect to him. Or else Jack would have to publish his IP number and stay connected all the time.

Yup, that's how it appears to work. I go through this thread every so often and add keys of people I recognize, so you'll eventually connect to me.

[Ðiego]

Yep yep..me too..try gatekeeper.naphoria.com..


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[Jadesun]

Yeah!!!

I see:

-==-
daddydirt
Diego
doggie
floydianslip
HellBound
JackSpratts
pod
relic
the knife

Now what do I do No wait.....I think I've got it

Whoa!! Gimmie room!!!

[theknife]

jade's got da speed...fastest d/l i've seen on Waste...yup, you gotta get a bigger hard drive

edit: she got as high as 48 then i lost her...crash and burn?

[Drakonix]

I finally made it in.

Thanks Multi, JackSpratts, Dawn, everyone that helped.

[Jadesun]

Originally posted by theknife
jade's got da speed...fastest d/l i've seen on Waste...yup, you gotta get a bigger hard drive

edit: she got as high as 48 then i lost her...crash and burn?

aw frig...were you trying to get something from me...I shut down...stupid me...I have to check and make sure that I ain't cuttin' no one off...that might have been my fault sorry Knife

Is that what happened

[Dawn]

Glad you guys made it.

Btw, is there any harm in leaving waste on 24/7?

[theknife]

Originally posted by Drakonix
I finally made it in.

Thanks Multi, JackSpratts, Dawn, everyone that helped.

well. i can see him in the main window, i can browse him, but he doesn't appear in the network status window and i can't d/l from him...

[greedy_lars]

[HellBound]

Originally posted by Drakonix
I finally made it in.

Thanks Multi, JackSpratts, Dawn, everyone that helped.

I can't download either.

Does the same thing it did when i was downloading from knife.

Check your settings. Make sure Limit to 2 files at once is checked in preferences/sending is checked.

when we unchecked that during a long download it stalled everything.

HellBound

[JackSpratts]

Originally posted by Drakonix
I finally made it in.

Thanks Multi, JackSpratts, Dawn, everyone that helped.

you're welcome drax!

and you've got the ventures christmas album (@320 no less). how cool is that.

we've got to fix your share thing.

- js.

[multi]

got your key in greedy..

good 1 jade and drax..looking forward to having a chat sometime..

even on dial up left it on 24/7
it reconnect straight away..
staying connected to it..is what sort of keeps it together..

i dont think pod has disconnected once from this thing.. well not that i remember..

i sometimes leave for 4-5 hrs now and then..usually to sleep or go out..
but i think if ppl are out getting stuff on another app..they should be able to feel free to ask someone on waste to abort a download for a while..(i mean we are all friends here..) and sometimes timing can be bad...
then send that file back so it resumes..or goes in that users queue when they have finished getting the file from one of other networks..

but nicking off to grabs stuff is ok too the persons file will resume the moment you come back..

[theknife]

greedy - walk towards the light

[Drakonix]

Thanks for the reports.

I looked at the preferences/sending/limit setting and it was unchecked. I have it checked and at 2 now.

Try it again.



Edit:

Looks like that was it! the knife is downloading from me now.