Lopster and servers?

RickDB · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 12:32 pm Post subject: Lopster and servers?

I have tried alot of p2p programs, but only 1 of them has standard servers in them.
With the rest of them i need to manually add them, but how do i know which servers to add?

Thx in advance,

RickDB

PS:Kinda a n00b question but i really need a working p2p program because limewire is too limited and wine kazaa is really slow.

kraaij · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 2:39 pm Post subject:

Maybe a little bit off topic, but for filesharing, I recommend gift, at gift.sourceforge.net and giftcurs, to be found at giftcurs.sourceforge.net for the interface.

Good luck with it...

Anton.

RickDB · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 3:17 pm Post subject:

Ok i will try gift then, just hope it has standard servers in it

True · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 4:12 pm Post subject:

Yeah, giFT totally rocks. I think the easiest way to set it up is to 'emerge giftcurs' which'll give you a nice ncurses based front end as well as installing giFt too. One thing to look out for, after running giFt-setup check that the config file (.giFT/gift.conf) has setup = 1. Sometimes it stays at zero and then nothing works. Also you may need to ocasionally delete the nodes file (.giFT/OpenFT) to stay up to date with things.

RickDB · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 4:29 pm Post subject:

I have been trying to get it to work but i still am getting could not start search(if i can get it to work i will share over 30 gig btw).
Gift looks cool but the giFT-setup is a little irri, here are my net settings:

ADSl modem ----> Router(192.168.0.1)----->192.168.0.4(me)

Kazaa and limewire sharing connecting and sharing is no problem so it should work?
Oh it now gives an error: Can't connect tot the daemon at 127.0.0.1:1213: connection refused (111)
Any ideas or suggestions?

Edit: i guess something is going wrong here:

DAEMON CONNECTION

Host of the giFT daemon that is listening for interface connections. If
unsure, use the default.

NOTE:
This currently does not support hostname lookup

[127.0.0.1] 195.121.1.66(tried both the router and dns)

True · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 4:39 pm Post subject:

Hmm, that's odd since it's not like you're trying to bind to a privaledged port. What happens if you start it as root? Also, giFT will build a list of your shares when you first fire it up and if you have 30Gb's it's gonna take ages (make sure you've made use of hdparm first ;-)

) and you should hear the hard drive working overtime. Maybe try just sharing a few files first to see if it's working. You could also do a 'netstat -a' straight away to see if you've connected to any servers.

RickDB · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 4:43 pm Post subject:

Ok i only shared a couple of files now and tried giFt-setup as root but it still says that it can't connect

Netstat -a says:

rick@Tux rick $ netstat -a
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 *:1024 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:631 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 Rick:32793 baym-cs137.msgr.ho:1863 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 Rick:33231 smtp6.wanadoo.nl:pop-3 TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 Rick:33230 smtp5.wanadoo.nl:pop-3 TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 Rick:32789 205.188.8.206:5190 ESTABLISHED
udp 0 0 *:32770 *:*
udp 0 0 *:631 *:*

True · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 4:50 pm Post subject:

That hostname lookup faliure seems to be the issue. Two things spring to mind.

1) Can you succesfully do an nslookup (www.cnn.com for example)
2) Is there any firewalling software running on your router that could be blocking certain ports?

You could try running 'watch netstat -a' in a sperate terminal as you start up giFT and see if anything shows up that looks odd.

RickDB · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 4:54 pm Post subject:

Hmm this is odd:

True · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 5:01 pm Post subject:

cnn.com block icmp (ping) requests..

Here's a working gift.conf file. You'll have to change the shares but give it a go and see if it makes any difference.

RickDB · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 5:10 pm Post subject:

Ok i changed it but its keeps saying connection refused

I tried to ping 127.0.0.1:

PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 octets data
64 octets from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.1 ms
64 octets from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms
64 octets from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms
64 octets from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms
64 octets from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms

So localhost is ok i guess must be the router, whats kinda strang i needed to enter a gateway in /etc/conf.d/net, maybe it needs my gateway adres to connect(gonna try that now)?

Edit: ok i tried giFT instead of giFTcurs and i saw ALOT of connections:

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 *:1024 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:1323 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:631 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:1530 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 *:1213 *:* LISTEN
tcp 0 1 Rick:33561 ts46-04-qdr2890.po:1215 SYN_SENT
tcp 0 0 Rick:33571 dsl-212-144-228-21:1215 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 1 Rick:33579 207-237-121-13.c3-:1215 SYN_SENT
tcp 0 1 Rick:33583 208-141-180-220.id:1215 SYN_SENT
tcp 0 1 Rick:33591 p5080BD20.dip.t-di:1215 SYN_SENT
tcp 0 0 Rick:33570 hal.geod.agh.edu.p:1215 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 1 Rick:33595 p5086EC8B.dip.t-di:1215 SYN_SENT
tcp 0 1 Rick:33597 dsl-213-023-055-15:1215 SYN_SENT
tcp 0 1 Rick:33585 host-222-204.tele2:1215 SYN_SENT
tcp 0 1 Rick:33604 pD9E163BD.dip.t-di:1215 SYN_SENT
tcp 0 1 Rick:33594 p5080B233.dip.t-di:1215 SYN_SENT
tcp 0 0 Rick:33562 mitch.demos.su:2057 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 Rick:33577 saturn05.fmi.uni-k:1215 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 1 Rick:33606 p5086FD32.dip.t-di:1215 SYN_SENT
tcp 0 0 Rick:32793 baym-cs137.msgr.ho:1863 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 Rick:33565 216.127.80.101:1215 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 Rick:33564 gsib.sl.ru:1215 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 Rick:33567 fnord.hemmet.chalm:1215 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 Rick:33569 tristan.WPI.EDU:1215 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 Rick:33572 nic-169-c229-196.t:1215 ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 Rick:33615 forums.gentoo.org:www TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 Rick:33614 forums.gentoo.org:www TIME_WAIT

True · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 5:34 pm Post subject:

Heh, giFtcurs is just a front end to giFT. You need to start giFT first, wait for a bit then start giFTcurs.

Sorry, I should have made that clearer.

RickDB · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 5:39 pm Post subject:

Ah i should have figured that out myself(just getting used to linux)

Holy shit 3.8 Terrabyte

Thx for the help now i can dl without those crappy winblows programs

True · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 5:51 pm Post subject:

Try it now..

Users online: 478
Total share: 3.8TB

That's about normal for giFT.....

RickDB · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 5:54 pm Post subject:

Kazaa has 3,5 miljon users and only 4 Tb, and gift has 476 users and has 3.8tb hehe

kraaij · Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 6:00 pm Post subject:

I am glad that you got it working. I missed out on the discussion (you guys are quick ;-)

But anyway, share away!

Greetings,

Anton.

iancurtis · Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2002 2:55 am Post subject:

just wondering what type of music does gift usualy have. It's so hard to find linux p2p software that carries stuff like punk,emo,hardcore,indie.