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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about opennap
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Last updated on January 6, 2001.
Q: What is opennap?
A: opennap is an open source server which speaks the napster protocol
Q: What is napster?
A: See www.napster.com for information.
Q: Is this project associated with napster.com?
A: No, this server was developed without any communication with napster.com
Q: Why can't I connect to the Napster.com servers?
A: We are not affiliated with Napster, Inc. You should contact them for
assistance.
Q: What language is opennap written in?
A: ANSI C.
Q: How do I get more than 256 connections under Windows?
A: Upgrade to version 0.38, it supports up to 1024 connections. Note that
this is a compiled in defalt for the distributed binary. If you have
Visual C++ you can edit the project file and make this value larger if
you wish.
Q: How do I get more than 256 connections under *nix systems?
A: On some systems without a poll() function, the maximum number of file
descriptors that a process can have is controlled by the FD_SETSIZE
macro. If you only have select(), try rerunning configure with the
--fd-setsize=1024 option to specify a higher value.
Q: How do I get more than 1024 connections under Linux?
A: You can set the per-process file descriptor limit dynamically by piping
an integer to /proc/sys/fs/file-max
(eg. echo 8192 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max). The default value seems to
4096 which should be good enough.
In order to utilize more than 1024 file descriptors, you must run
opennap as root. Set your `connection_hard_limit' variable to something
higher than 1024 and you should be set.
Q: Isn't running opennap as root a security risk?
A: Running anything as root can potentially be a security risk. Opennap
attempts to reduce the risk by allowing you to specify the default
uid/gid to run as. After setting the max file descriptors, opennap
calls setuid() and setgid() to drop root privilege (by default it uses
user nobody, group nobody).
Q: Why do I get disconnected when I browse a user with many shared files?
A: By default, OpenNap will only queue up to 100kbytes of data for a user
to prevent a huge backlog of data for a dead/slow client. A user with
1000 shared files will often create more than 100kbytes of output, which
triggers the dead client detection to prevent using too much resources.
Q: How do I fix it?
A: If you have memory to spare, you can increase the value of
client_queue_length, or alternatively decrease the number of files
returned by a browse command (max_browse_result) so that it does not cross
the 100kbytes default limit.
Q: How do I get my server listed on napigator.com?
A: Go to www.napigator.com and look for the section on adding servers.
Q: How do I link my server to other servers?
A: Find the people who run the server you want to link with and discuss it
with them. If both parties agree you exchange a password and follow
the directions in the README for linking up.
Q: Under Windows, I see
handle_connection(): read: Unknown error (errno 10054) for host
whenever a client attempts to connect to the server. How do I fix this?
A: Remove or comment out (by placing a # in front of the line) the line in
your config file (typically C:\opennap\config) that begins with
`listen_addr'. You can use any text editor to accomplish this.
Q: How do I compiled OpenNap with Visual C++ under Windows?
A: You need to get DLLs for zlib from http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/.
You want zlib113.zip and zlib113adll.zip. Make sure to unzip them in
the *parent* directory of OpenNap, so that the directory tree looks like
this:
zlib/
opennap-0.xx/
NOTE: you DO NOT want to unzip zlib in the *same* directory as the
OpenNap source, because the project file will not be able to find them
there.