Comments on: Glasnost Not Actually Correct

By: Wally

Wally — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:16:07 +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.”

By: George Ou

George Ou — Sun, 25 May 2008 12:52:26 +0000

Wow, I didn’t think the data would be that bogus. If they’re claiming 2 out of 2 uploads are blocked, you shouldn’t be able to seed. Yet you’re able to seed perfectly fine with BitTorrent. This definitely puts the entire test results in to question.

By: Richard Bennett

Richard Bennett — Sun, 25 May 2008 06:05:45 +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.

By: Ted

Ted — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:42:48 +0000

So I know seeding is possible on my connection, but Glasnost claims it isnâ€™t.

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