Re: [Gtk-gnutella-users] help understanding download status lines

[Florian L. <fl...@vo...>]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 10:23:22PM -0600, david slimp wrote:
> 
> "Timeout (256 tries)"
> 	Again... I DO want that file.  is gtkg going to continue to search
> 	for other hosts to DL it from, or do I need to manually do some
> 	work here?  I have even found that if I send these files back to
> 	to download queue, that some of them do eventually get downloaded.

I also wonder if these timeouting sources get dropped after a certain
number of retries or if gtkg continues to pound hosts that have 
changed IPs long ago.

> My dilema is that I see these items in the active/finished download
> window and I can't tell if I need to "baby" them or not.  Some of these
> items I do not have active searches for them, and so am wondering if
> I click on "clear completed" that they will go away forever and I will
> forget I had found that item some time ago (perhaps a month or more)
> and have been trying to download it... perhaps from a host that has
> changed it IP.... does gtkg know to automatically look for other hosts
> that have the same item?  -- I do have "watch searches for alternate
> sources" turned on, as well as "swarming", but as I said... I may not
> be actively searching for some of these items... as they had some how
> just popped up during some other search, but seemed interesting.

Yes, interesting question. Also interesting for me would be if
it just adds new searches when they happen to come by in a passive
search (do I have to open a passive search window?) or if it atively
searches for URN:SHA in the background.

Regards,

Florian