Rc5 questions

[tjll11a]

I was wondering when i send a email to request work how do i do it.

I keep getting error when i send an email to fetch@distributed.net
I put no subject and the only thing i put in the body was

numblocks=yyyy
blocksize=33

What am i doing wrong?

Thankyou for all your help

 

[mechBgon]

I looked in the FAQ at Dnet but I didn't find the part about email fetching/flushing, so I did a quick experiment and sent for 128 blocks from fetch@distributed.net. The body was

numblocks=128

I got a reply and blocks. I wonder if you are asking for more blocks than they will let you have in one shot. You will also note that I left out the blocksize, since it is not used anymore. The following is the text that comes with a successful fetch:


From: help*nodezero.distributed.net Add To Address Book
To: mechbgon*originpoint.com
Subject: Distributed.Net Block Fetching Results


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Part: 1

The block fetcher has completed your fetch of 128 requested blocks.

** NOTE: THE REQUESTED WORK IS NOW ALWAYS WORKUNITS, NOT
** PACKETS, REGARDLESS YOUR PREFERRED BLOCKSIZE

The output of the fetch is shown below:

RESULTS FOLLOW:

dnetc v2.8010-462-CTR-00070113 for FreeBSD (FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE).

[Jan 22 07:25:15 UTC] The keyserver says: "Think about it, my dear. (dbaker)"
[Jan 22 07:25:24 UTC] Retrieved 23 RC5 packets (130 work units) from server

EOF.



edit: de-@'ed my email address

 

[TwoFace]

Just as a little tip, if you can get blocks ANY other way at all do so!!! Our newest member (Ultima) used the email fetch thing to crack a MEGA dump of his own, and most of it was randoms! He spent alot of time sneakering blocks he fetched this way with email, and most of it for nothing 🙁 If you have ANY other way to get blocks, please use it! If you want, I'd rather mail you the packets myself, that way they're not randoms at least.

With love and respect your fellow TA member

Two-Face

 

[mechBgon]

I also wanted to say that I had to fetch/flush several computers via email for a while, and I know what a pain it can be. It's cool that you are devoted enough to your Team to take the trouble. 🙂

 

[tjll11a]

what i was tring to do is. At home i have couple computer all on a lan that run client 24/7 but when i'm at work i'd could run about 4 more computers but i could only do them by email due know internet connection.
Just tring to contribute as much as possible. What do you all think would be the best way to do things in this situation?

Thanks all for you support
Jason

 

[tjll11a]

was wondering i have been running the client for about a week now and have done numerous fetches and flushes. I was wondering why can't view any stats on me. I used email address tjll11a@hotmail.com. Is that email banned possibly.


I noticed i'm doing alot of ogr and not rc5 is that the reason. Which one would be better to do. What do all you do? If you all think it would be better to do rc5 instead how would i force it to do so?

Thankyou for all your help
Jason

 

[TwoFace]

The best way would be to sneaker blocks from your home cows. What I do when I need to do that is this:

Adjust my inbuffer to something sufficiently big that it'll last me several days (if not a week or two) on the machines I need blocks for, fetch that and then shutdown the client and readjust the buffer level, rename the buff-in.rc5 file, and then fire up the client again, it'll then fetch it's ordinary amount of work and keep crackin'. the renamed buff-in.rc5 I then take with me on a floppy, and I use the -import switch on the client I needed the blocks for. The client doesn't have to be shutdown to import a buffer, and you can just rename the buff-out.rc5 on the fly, then take it with you and import it at home... your client there will then flush it...

If I wasn't clear enough on how to do this, I'm sure I could formulate it better if you just let me know what part I was unclear on 😱

With love and respect your fellow TA member

Two-Face

 

[tjll11a]

thankyou that was very helpfull i fully understand now

 

[RaySun2Be]

tjll11a,
You stated that your PCs seem to be doing OGR instead of RC5. OGR is the default project for distributed.net, to do RC5 you have to change the project priority.

Open the DNETC.INI file using a text editor such as notepad, and look for the following parm:

[misc]
project-priority=OGR,RC5=0,DES=0,CSC=0

That is the setup to run OGR only

To run RC5 only:

[misc]
project-priority=RC5,OGR=0,DES=0,CSC=0

and to alternate between the two projects:

[misc]
project-priority=RC5,OGR,DES=0,CSC=0


Set it to whichever project you desire to run. RC5 needs help in regaining the #1 spot overall, OGR has the potential for scientific applications.

If you have been running OGR, then your stats would show up here: OGR25

Happy cracking! 😀