I installed Apollon and the three plugins(OpenFT, Gnutella and FastTrack). The first to connect no problem but FastTrack just says connecting but never does. Anyone else have it working for them ... sure would be nice if l could get to use it. Of course l installed giFt and have tried in vain to google anything other then l found a few posts with the same problem but no solution.

Wayne

run gift -v to see if there is anything wrong

I'm just getting 'bad command' when l try what you've said .

Wayne

sorry it was in the morning when i posted it and i was still waking up

try:

giftd -v

This is what l got.

wayne@1[~]$ giftd -v
[10:36:28] giftd 0.11.8.1 (Dec 12 2004 20:14:39) started
[10:36:28] *** GIFT-ERROR: bind: Address already in use
[10:36:28] *** GIFT-FATAL: Failed to load interface subsystem

NOTE:
There may be another giFT daemon running on this host. Check to see if the
interface port (1213) is currently in use by another process.

[10:36:28] *** Often times more information can be found in the log file or with the -v command line switch.

Wayne

as it said that it is already running , so you have to kill it first

killall giftd

then try it again : giftd -v

Here is what l got concerning fasttrack, since it was quite long l deleted everything else:


wayne@3[~]$ killall giftd
giftd: no process killed
wayne@3[~]$ giftd -v


[11:11:59] Plugin FastTrack (0.8.9) successfully loaded and initialized
[11:11:59] FastTrack: fst_fasttrack.c:652(fst_giftcb_start): starting up
[11:11:59] FastTrack: fst_fasttrack.c:735(fst_giftcb_start): Loaded 1543 supernode addresses from nodes file "/home/wayne/.giFT/FastTrack/nodes"
[11:11:59] FastTrack: fst_fasttrack.c:749(fst_giftcb_start): Loaded 16074 banned ip ranges from "/home/wayne/.giFT/FastTrack/banlist"
[11:11:59] FastTrack: fst_fasttrack.c:769(fst_giftcb_start): Http server listening on port 1214
[11:11:59] FastTrack: fst_session.c:128(fst_session_connect): connecting to 243.32.215.24:3843, load: 0%
[11:11:59] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: tcp_open() failed for 243.32.215.24. noroute to host?
[11:11:59] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: Internet connection seems down, sleeping for 20 seconds.
[11:12:19] FastTrack: fst_session.c:128(fst_session_connect): connecting to 243.32.215.24:3843, load: 0%
[11:12:19] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: tcp_open() failed for 243.32.215.24. noroute to host?
[11:12:19] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: Internet connection seems down, sleeping for 20 seconds.
[11:12:39] FastTrack: fst_session.c:128(fst_session_connect): connecting to 243.32.215.24:3843, load: 0%
[11:12:39] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: tcp_open() failed for 243.32.215.24. noroute to host?
[11:12:39] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: Internet connection seems down, sleeping for 20 seconds.
[11:12:59] FastTrack: fst_session.c:128(fst_session_connect): connecting to 243.32.215.24:3843, load: 0%
[11:12:59] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: tcp_open() failed for 243.32.215.24. noroute to host?
[11:12:59] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: Internet connection seems down, sleeping for 20 seconds.
[11:12:59] FastTrack: fst_session.c:128(fst_session_connect): connecting to 243.32.215.24:3843, load: 0%
[11:12:59] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: tcp_open() failed for 243.32.215.24. noroute to host?
[11:12:59] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: Internet connection seems down, sleeping for 20 seconds.
[11:13:19] FastTrack: fst_session.c:128(fst_session_connect): connecting to 243.32.215.24:3843, load: 0%
[11:13:19] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: tcp_open() failed for 243.32.215.24. noroute to host?
[11:13:19] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: Internet connection seems down, sleeping for 20 seconds.
[11:13:19] FastTrack: fst_session.c:128(fst_session_connect): connecting to 243.32.215.24:3843, load: 0%
[11:13:19] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: tcp_open() failed for 243.32.215.24. noroute to host?
[11:13:19] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: Internet connection seems down, sleeping for 20 seconds.
[11:13:39] FastTrack: fst_session.c:128(fst_session_connect): connecting to 243.32.215.24:3843, load: 0%
[11:13:39] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: tcp_open() failed for 243.32.215.24. noroute to host?
[11:13:39] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: Internet connection seems down, sleeping for 20 seconds.
[11:13:39] FastTrack: fst_session.c:128(fst_session_connect): connecting to 243.32.215.24:3843, load: 0%
[11:13:39] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: tcp_open() failed for 243.32.215.24. noroute to host?
[11:13:39] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: Internet connection seems down, sleeping for 20 seconds.
[11:13:59] FastTrack: fst_session.c:128(fst_session_connect): connecting to 243.32.215.24:3843, load: 0%
[11:13:59] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: tcp_open() failed for 243.32.215.24. noroute to host?
[11:13:59] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: Internet connection seems down, sleeping for 20 seconds.
[11:13:59] FastTrack: fst_session.c:128(fst_session_connect): connecting to 243.32.215.24:3843, load: 0%
[11:13:59] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: tcp_open() failed for 243.32.215.24. noroute to host?
[11:13:59] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: Internet connection seems down, sleeping for 20 seconds.
[11:13:59] FastTrack: fst_session.c:128(fst_session_connect): connecting to 243.32.215.24:3843, load: 0%
[11:13:59] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: tcp_open() failed for 243.32.215.24. noroute to host?
[11:13:59] *** GIFT-WARNING: FastTrack: Internet connection seems down, sleeping for 20 seconds.
[11:14:14] FastTrack: fst_fasttrack.c:845(fst_giftcb_destroy): shutting down
[11:14:14] FastTrack: fst_fasttrack.c:61(save_nodes): saved 1543 supernode addresses to nodes file "/home/wayne/.giFT/FastTrack/nodes"

wayne@3[~]$

I had to open ports in my router for gnutella, fasttrack, and openft. I still find Apollon very unreliable and problematic.

I installed Amule yesterday and I cannot complain.

Hi Fair:

I sure would like to connect to fastTrack for music download. I did download Amule to have look but it seems to have a lot of sex related servers which isn't what l am looking for.

Wayne

in amule i usually connect to "razorback 2" or "donkey server no.2" as they have the largest users