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Title: What do "Local Server" and "Source Exchange" mean?
Post by: jazzmaniac on April 05, 2010, 03:18:00 PM

What do the above terms "mean" in regard to the upload queue? (PLEASE  refer me to the appropriate aMule Wiki page --if it exists-- if you don't feel like writing a treatise on the matter.) Thanks.

Title: Re: What do "Local Server" and "Source Exchange" mean?
Post by: Stu Redman on April 05, 2010, 05:43:38 PM

Source exchange: if aMule has found a source which is also not finished yet aMule asks the source which sources it knows. So you can get sources publishing only on ED2K even if you use only KAD for example.

Title: Re: What do "Local Server" and "Source Exchange" mean?
Post by: jazzmaniac on April 05, 2010, 06:01:21 PM

Thanks for replying Stu. I know I'm probably showing my ignorance, but what constitutes a "local" server (as opposed to a "global" server, I guess)?

Title: Re: What do "Local Server" and "Source Exchange" mean?
Post by: Stu Redman on April 05, 2010, 06:41:49 PM

I have no idea, or I would have answered that.  :)
(Servers are a thing of the past imho. In Lugdums's opinion too.)

Title: Re: What do "Local Server" and "Source Exchange" mean?
Post by: jazzmaniac on April 05, 2010, 07:15:51 PM

You are a good man Stu. It is the rare individual who admits to not knowing something (everything?). Regards.

Title: Re: What do "Local Server" and "Source Exchange" mean?
Post by: Kry on April 06, 2010, 01:02:13 AM

Local server = the server you're connected to.

Title: Re: What do "Local Server" and "Source Exchange" mean?
Post by: jazzmaniac on April 06, 2010, 03:16:11 AM

Thanks Kry!

Title: Re: What do "Local Server" and "Source Exchange" mean?
Post by: gav616 on April 07, 2010, 08:42:37 PM

For reference:

Source Exchange (http://emule-project.net/home/perl/help.cgi?l=1&rm=show_topic&topic_id=137)

>     Local
Only the server, the client is currently connected to will be searched.
>    Global (Server)
All servers from the server list are queried. Each server is asked individually. This puts added stress on all servers asked, use this respectfully.
If local gives you what you want, leave it at that.
>    Kademlia
Searches all the Kademlia network for the given keywords. The eD2k network, i.e. servers are not search with this method. It may take some time until the search results arrive. Should even a popular search expression yield no results then the system's UDP Port is probably blocked by a firewall or router. The "!" character at the search tab created shows the progress of the search.

Title: Re: What do "Local Server" and "Source Exchange" mean?
Post by: jazzmaniac on April 09, 2010, 02:14:47 PM

Hello gav616. Thanks for following up on the matter and for your great explanation.