I am testing with 2 xp machines on my LAN, which obviously share the same WAN IP
Both are connected to the same few public (##ADV) channels
I created a 'secret', unadvertised channel on one computer then passed the link for it to the other computer over private message.
It has been about 24 hours, I see occasional connection attempts between my 2 computers but they always time out. They never connected to form the channel during this time so far.
I noticed this on the event log of one:
[1:49:59 PM] starting DHT search
[1:50:08 PM] peer created from DHT > 1.2.3.4
[1:51:03 PM] DHT search complete, 1 peers found
[2:16:08 PM] starting DHT search
[2:16:18 PM] peer created from DHT > 1.2.3.4
[2:16:44 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[2:16:44 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[2:16:44 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[2:16:47 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[2:16:47 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[2:16:47 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[2:16:49 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[2:16:51 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[2:17:02 PM] DHT search complete, 9 peers found
[2:42:03 PM] starting DHT search
[2:42:14 PM] peer created from DHT > 1.2.3.4
[2:43:10 PM] DHT search complete, 1 peers found
[3:08:12 PM] starting DHT search
[3:08:18 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[3:08:22 PM] peer created from DHT > 1.2.3.4
[3:09:31 PM] DHT search complete, 2 peers found
[3:34:41 PM] starting DHT search
[3:34:50 PM] peer created from DHT > 1.2.3.4
[3:36:31 PM] DHT search complete, 1 peers found
Obviously each can see the other out there, but can't connect.
Another thing though I don't understand is how DHT is finding do many other users at times. On the log, hour after hour, search after search, DHT finds 1 peer.
Then the anomaly (at 2:16), it finds 8-15 others!
What does that mean?
Are these also possessing the channel link? how?
I sent it only by 'secure' private message to my other computer.
And why is it intermittent, 9 of 10 times finding just one peer (the real one) then finding a swarm?
What is going on?
Any explanation of why this is happening and the potential problems?
just saw this, from the log while trying to create a 'secret' test channel
[1:29:39 PM] starting DHT search
[1:29:44 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[1:30:38 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[1:30:38 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[1:30:38 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[1:30:40 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[1:30:40 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[1:30:40 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[1:30:43 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[1:30:43 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[1:30:43 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[1:30:45 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[1:30:55 PM] DHT search complete, 16 peers found
[1:31:05 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[1:31:05 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[1:31:05 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[1:31:07 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[1:31:07 PM] peer created from DHT > *.*.*.*
[1:56:25 PM] starting DHT search
note this appeared a couple times, with the summary of "16 peers found" appearing before the list of peers was completed. Don't know what relevance this may have, just seems a bit quirky to me.
That is aside from the fact that this was an attempt to form a 'secret' unadvertised channel. How were 16 peers found when no one knows about the channel but me? Trying to form it with 2 clients on my LAN but that haven't been able to connect since it was created 3 days ago.
