MLDonkey

[Wilse]

Hi folks,

Just had another bash at using MLDonkey on MOS 1.4 and, once I've
found a file and click on it, I get a message saying:
"Download of file started", but then nothing seems to happen.

am I missing something obvious?

[Wilse]

rayt wrote:
What does "nothing seems to happen" mean? Doesn't it even appear in your download list?

Ah, yes it does, although under 'downloaded' there is a zero.

if your computer is behind a router/firewall you should forward the mldonkey ports (4661 and 4662 if I'm not wrong).

It's connected to Sweex router and ADSL. I'm not aware of any firewall but how do I go about forwarding ports?

Please excuse my ignorance here. Never really used MLdonkey.

[Wilse]

KennyR wrote:
2) The file you want is no longer available on the donkey network. This is extremely common. Donkey sucks.

Hmmm - reccommend an alternative?

[Wilse]

First you have to figure out if your router supports port forwarding (most newer models do so).

hmmm - nothing in the contents list of thew manual for port forwarding or firewall. Would this be under a particular section? (i.e. Admin privelidge - ADSL configuration or something?)

The only thing is to figure out how to configure your router.

I can access this easily enough, just can't find any reference to Firewall or port forwarding.

[Wilse]

rayt wrote:

I found this on google, if this is your router it might be useful.

Thank you. I'll have a look.

[Wilse]

Stupid question alert!

you should forward the mldonkey ports (4661 and 4662 if I'm not wrong).

Portforward.com says:

Unfortunately this router only allows you to forward one port at a time.

Is this a problem?

[Wilse]

rayt wrote:

hmm I don't know, it might be enough to only forward port 4662, as this is the port on which mldonkey communicates to other clients.

I'll give it a try but if it doesn't work:

replace your router with with an old linux pc running the mldonkey core and controlling it via telnet/browser/gui from your pegasos.
I'm doing it like this and my mldonkey runs 24/7, which is the only way you can decently download stuff from the donkey network imho.

is a bit too much hassle.

Is there any other option for pegasos/amiga?

[Wilse]

@Kenny:

You can run your Pegasos as a DMZ host - most routers
 allow this. That way you don't need to redirect any ports.
It will expose your Peg to all the internet can throw at it,
but MorphOS is immune to all the hacks and exploits anyway.

How easy is this to set up?

By the way, as an alternative to donkey I recommend
bittorrent.

Where can I find that?

Cheers,

[Wilse]

@Kenny:

On my router, setting up DMZ on a computer is as simple as putting its LAN IP address into a box in the config and saving. From then on, everything on the internet will see this machine and not the router. The only problem of course is if your router doesn't have this feature...

OK. I'll come back to this another time, as it's getting on a bit. :-)

Just type "voo" into the webpage or telnet configuration of mldonkey, and bring up the config. Enable bittorrent there by setting it to TRUE, if not already.

I'm using Ibrowse (Voyager doesn't seem to show the webpage correctly) and it is show as 'True'.

Once you find one (google "torrent", you won't need to search much), download it somewhere, go back to where the webpage or telnet, and type "dllink ".
i.e. "dllink DH6:foo.torrent". It should now be listed in your downloads and mldonkey will start to download it.

OK. I found a beavis & butthead file (I know but it was the first thing under 50MB I found).
I downloaded it to RAM, went back into the webpage and typed:
dllink ram:beavis and butthead-1-900-beavis..torrent
When I click execute it says done but going back into the downloads section, it isn't listed.

One more thing. If you're only allowed to redirect one port, redirect 6882 and use the bittorrent support. The Donkey network needs two ports opened.

I just realised that it's probably because I haven't done this part yet that nothing is showing up in the downloads section?
-EDIT-
I'd typed the filename wrong; it is showing up on the downloads list but doesn't seem to be downloading.

Thanks,