Re: hanging up for the previous P2P user

2009-05-25 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 09:50 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Tony Baldwin writes: I'm just guessing here, but I honestly thought killing the client should stop the incoming connections from seeking the ip, so I'm a little confused, and curious about the matter, now that you've brought

Re: hanging up for the previous P2P user

2009-05-25 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/09 15:34, Michael M. Moore wrote: On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 09:50 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Tony Baldwin writes: I'm just guessing here, but I honestly thought killing the client should stop the incoming connections from seeking the

Re: hanging up for the previous P2P user

2009-05-25 Thread jidanni
In a reasonably short period of time, every client that knew about you will figure out that you are no longer available All I know is that the knocks on the bathroom stall's door by the former occupant's buddies continued all through the night, despite my use of DROP in iptables. Maybe the

Re: hanging up for the previous P2P user

2009-05-25 Thread jidanni
Claudius Hubig nfs_2...@chubig.net writes: Did you try REJECT instead of DROP? Maybe telling all these buddies you don't want to know them instead of just ignoring them would do the job? Yes ( http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/355741 ), but it just made my ADSL 256/64 line more

hanging up for the previous P2P user

2009-05-24 Thread jidanni
When I connect to my ISP, sometimes I apparently get assigned an IP address that has recently been used by a P2P file sharing user, hence there are many sites still trying to connect to it. Just like even after the authorities raided the crackhouse, the phone kept ringing off the hook. Yes it

Re: hanging up for the previous P2P user

2009-05-24 Thread jidanni
Tony Baldwin writes: Shouldn't killing the p2p client stop broadcasting the ip on the p2p network? Maybe the other user is leaving it on in the background? The other user has hung up his modem line, and the ISP has now given that IP address to me. Did you check top to see if it's still

Re: hanging up for the previous P2P user

2009-05-24 Thread Tony Baldwin
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Tony Baldwin writes: Shouldn't killing the p2p client stop broadcasting the ip on the p2p network? Maybe the other user is leaving it on in the background? The other user has hung up his modem line, and the ISP has now given that IP address to me. Did you check