Re: [Mldonkey-users] max_sources_age - ip range specific setting?

[Martin]

Mike Jones wrote...
> I have noticed that a large part of the donkey community that I 
> communicate with are on t-online.de or t-dialin.net  217.*something
> or 80.*something (etc).

This is true but this isp has a lot more ip-ranges!

> It is my understanding that their IP changes every 24 hours (which
> may be true for other large known ISPs as well).
> From their point of view, perhaps they have to restart mldonkey to
> have it use the new IP (I'm not really sure on this).

No - it takes a few minutes but mld then continues normally

> From my point of view, I have a ton of sources that are no longer
> valid every 24 hours, and won't ever become valid, right?

True

> But, I don't want to drop all sources after such a low limit as 24
> hours, since address@hidden may just turn off his donkey for the
> weekend and be a valid (but hard to find) source on monday.

True again

> So, what about the idea that max_sources_age is X (3) for most 
> sources, unless they match an IP.* range that I can include in a 
> list, and then they will be dumped after another timelimit 
> (max_sources_age_based_on_ip_list) which I can set to 1 if I want?

Not a bad idea...dont know how hard it is to implement that but i
surely know that your line wrapping is a *very* bad idea! Please cut
your lines at 78 chars! Otherwise its *very* hard to read!
(i reformatted your post above!)

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