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Re: Glasnost Not Actually Correct

Wally — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:16:07 -0000

Another aspect of the trial worth noting is that the testers appear to have turned off the BT feature that automatically retries a reset connection, something George has commented on in his writings. Thus, every transfer the Max Planck Institute attempted that received a reset packet automatically was registered as a "block" even though, if Max Planck had allowed BT to retry the connection, it may have proved that the upload was merely delayed rather than "blocked."

Re: Glasnost Not Actually Correct

Richard Bennett — Sun, 25 May 2008 02:05:45 -0000

The report implies that seeding is blocked - "2 out of 2 BitTorrent transfers interrupted." In fact, no BitTorrent transfers were interrupted, they were only delayed. A TCP stream does not equate to a BitTorrent transfer.

Re: Glasnost Not Actually Correct

Ted Smith — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:42:48 -0000

So I know seeding is possible on my connection, but Glasnost claims it isn’t.

That's not what the report you posted says. It says that forged TCP reset packets were sent. Is that incorrect?