Dewaniya Net http://dewaniyanet.wordpress.com A private Kuwaiti network Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:56:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/065b79883a2d1e8cd930a052d941dea5?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png Dewaniya Net http://dewaniyanet.wordpress.com Outage http://dewaniyanet.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/outage/ http://dewaniyanet.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/outage/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:56:03 +0000 3baid http://dewaniyanet.wordpress.com/?p=39 ]]>

The DC hub (Node 0) was out from around 12 to 4 PM due to power outage. We’ll be purchasing a UPS soon to prepare for this sort of thing.

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There it is. The first file transfer between N and myself on Node 0. Don’t mind the slow tranfer rate, my ISP caps p2p transfers :P

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After finally buying a new router and updating its firmware, the Direct Connect server should now be accessible publicly. There are no restrictions to connected users as of yet, but we will continue to tweak settings as we go along :)

You can find the settings on the main page.

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We had to use a floppy disk. With windows 98 startup. Yes, the year is 2008…

We created an image of the floppy we used. We’ll also make a bootable CD image. Both will be made publicly available for free to distribute.  We’ll post the links to these images here once ready.

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We still can’t decide on a network protocol. DC++ (Direct Connect) Seems to be the best way, theoretically speaking, but the client/server software is lacking for Linux CLI daemons. If you know of any good CLI server/hub please let us know.

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K pointed out typos in Maintenance and DynDNS pages. They’ve been fixed.

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Here’s a list of network protocols that we’ll be looking at. The selection will obviously require support on all major platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux).

  1. Bittorrent (Private Tracker + Frontend)
    It requires generating .torrent files which is very cumbersome. Can be capped by ISPs.
  2. DC++ (Private Hub)
    MD5 checksums issues?
  3. WASTE
    Pending evaluation
  4. eDonkey/eMule
    Can be capped by ISP.
  5. Gnutella/Gnutella2
    Can be capped by ISP. 
  6. IRC
    Requires bots/scripts. No encryption?
  7. GNUnet
    Pending evaluation.
  8. FTP/SFTP (Private user/pass)
    Poor security for FTP. Too risky for SFTP? No Fair Queue System
Please use the discussions page if you have more suggestions.

 

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Work on Node 0 (the first file server) has begun. Tutorials will be added soon.

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