On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error
> > message say ? What torrent were you downloading/uploading ?
> > Did you set your firewall to open for torrents ?
> >
> > Kaj Haulrich.
>
> It does, doesn't it? The error message was something about time
> out, bad info on file or somesuch. It was Lokitorrent, and it was
> a movie. :-)
>
> Yes, I had done a service shorewall stop (I know, I should set it
> to open the individual ports). So the 6xxx ports should have been
> open. Besides, I've d'/led other bittorrent files this way, no
> problem.
>
> I still don't see what it did to my /home directory that the
> reiserfs couldn't handle. :-(
Just a guess : the message "bad info on file" + shorewall stopped
could mean you have been compromised somehow. On other
file-sharing networks like kazaa it's common to find malware,
uploaded by the RIAA-type companies in order to scare people off.
On the other hand, it's unlikely they could come up with something
able to run on Linux.
Another guess : were you running out of space on the /home
partition ? - Some movies consume more than 2-3 GB ? - Do you
have partmon running ?
When I use bittorrent I always open ports 6xxx only. Never had a
problem and I often leave it running for a considerable time after
finishing the download. I don't know what happens if - let's say -
you've only one peer and that one suddenly shuts down ?
Did you get the problem fixed somehow ?
Kaj Haulrich.
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