From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISd3F-0003NB-Ak for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:23:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l84IFB0K008055; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:15:11 GMT Received: from sccrmhc15.comcast.net (sccrmhc15.comcast.net [63.240.77.85]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l84IBBO3003676 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:11:12 GMT Received: from spore.ath.cx ([24.245.14.14]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc15) with ESMTP id <2007090418111001500pgiiqe>; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:11:10 +0000 Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB35EA29C7 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:11:10 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:11:10 -0500 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Music Retrieval Message-ID: <20070904131110.70e1a4d7@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <46DD9D64.1040800@verizon.net> References: <46DAFA54.3040208@verizon.net> <46DAFE88.9040200@gmail.com> <46DB0D79.9070909@verizon.net> <28873.198.151.13.15.1188921161.squirrel@webmail.sbinsystems.com> <46DD9D64.1040800@verizon.net> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.13; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 82671eee-7954-4371-ae68-65bb5cbbbad3 X-Archives-Hash: a7aa0dd89596bb21ae0cb92c5b4ff233 On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:01:08 -0400 sean wrote: > I was only trying out Amarok. What did you think? I thought it was super cool, except it's resource utilization is so high i don't run it anymore if I can avoid. audacious seems almost completely better to me > I suspect they aren't sending the information via icmp, so just the > fact that the server is "pingable" really doesn't provide useful > information in this particular case. yeah, but it is a lot more likely that the server would be down than that it's just misconfigured. servers go down all the time; they are generally seldom administered. so it seems to me a ping is a good first step in testing access to these servers. im guessing CDDB does use IP, so if icmp can get through, so can tcp (udp,or any other protocols encapsulated in ip). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list