Hello, I was just wondering about a few issues surrounding the news about Napster going subscription. Gnutella and Freenet aside, are there other TRUE...
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steve bryan
steve_bryan@...
Feb 1, 2001 3:33 pm
... I'd be happy to do so but could someone review exactly what the worse things it does on the network? I think the most important problem with it is that it...
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Greg Bildson
gbildson@...
Feb 1, 2001 3:47 pm
I think there are two definite problem and one that all developers have not necessarily fully bought into. 1) It broadcasts pushes rather than route them....
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steve bryan
steve_bryan@...
Feb 1, 2001 5:37 pm
... I've only examined Gnutella 0.56 in a controlled private network environment but in that case it pings less than most other clients. As far as broadcasting...
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crohrs@...
Feb 1, 2001 7:13 pm
... nature ... Arghh, we've been around the "broadcast or route pushes?" issue about a million times now. There is nothing to debate here; we absolutely ...
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steve bryan
steve_bryan@...
Feb 1, 2001 8:36 pm
Have you ever had it happen that you clean up something clearly needed maintenance only to find out that somehow what you thought of as junk was the thing that...
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Greg Bildson
gbildson@...
Feb 1, 2001 8:58 pm
Steve, Regarding the pushing by Gnutella 0.56 and others helping the success of pushes, that occurred to me as well. It is certainly a good point. However, I...
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steve bryan
steve_bryan@...
Feb 1, 2001 9:53 pm
... John, When I tried to send email to the address in your message headers (swabby@...), I get the error message quoted above. Is there an address I can...
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steve bryan
steve_bryan@...
Feb 1, 2001 10:12 pm
... Yep, I would have to agree with that (50% is way too much). My own anecdotal observations is that push packets have always been a small part of the traffic...
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gdf@...
Feb 2, 2001 2:59 am
We've recently prepared a matrix detailing compatibility between third-party servents and the Clip2 Reflector v1.2.5 Beta. We're eager to exchange any...
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Shaun Sidwall
shaun@...
Feb 2, 2001 3:37 am
Hello, This is the gnotella guy and Id like to clarify some things. I am aware that I dont respond to indexing and that will be fixed in the next version. Now...
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Greg Bildson
gbildson@...
Feb 2, 2001 3:37 am
Kelly/DSS, When you talk about the 255 query results, are you expecting all results in one query reply (hit)? We send multiple query replies to you when...
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gdf@...
Feb 2, 2001 7:06 am
In http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_gdf/message/64 Ben Houston wrote I mentioned this idea recently under the title "meta system transition" but everyone ...
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Greg Bildson
gbildson@...
Feb 2, 2001 7:11 am
Limewire actually gives gnucache pings a higher priority which I believe is a good idea in general. This allows gnutellahosts.com and router.limewire.com more...
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gdf@...
Feb 2, 2001 8:35 am
This is Kelly Truelove writing on behalf of Clip2. In http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_gdf/message/166, Brander Lien of ToadNode essentially suggested GDF...
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Richard Gomez
rgomez@...
Feb 2, 2001 4:00 pm
Recently, as I have been working on the new code base for our Gnutella implementation, and reading the posts on this board, I have seen a couple of things that...
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steve bryan
steve_bryan@...
Feb 2, 2001 5:12 pm
... My apologies for not paying closer attention. When I looked at the information about the reflector I got the impression it did its work entirely within the...
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Tor Klingberg
tor.klingberg@...
Feb 2, 2001 7:22 pm
... As far as I remember the idea was to send a TTL1 ping with data on all new connection to identify oneself to the other hosts. Sending information in the...
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Brander Lien
lien@...
Feb 2, 2001 7:59 pm
... connection to identify oneself to the ... queries, where there is no other space ot put extra ... Tor, Sending out a ping with extended data in it to...
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Tor Klingberg
tor.klingberg@...
Feb 2, 2001 10:25 pm
... It does break the protocol, but is that really so dangerous? Old clients will drop the packet either because there is data in it or because its TTL runs...
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steve bryan
steve_bryan@...
Feb 2, 2001 10:47 pm
I've followed the lead of others to include vendor information in query response packets by interpreting the protocol to imply that the last sixteen bytes of...
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Brander Lien
lien@...
Feb 2, 2001 10:51 pm
Tor, Again a binary query that doesn't necessarily hold the intended data is going to choke on some clients, which isn't the effect we'd like to see. The...
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Serguei Osokine
osokin@...
Feb 2, 2001 11:57 pm
... Kelly, cool table! Now about this 255 replies - how would it be possible to send more then 255 replies in one message? There's just one byte there for the...
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gdf_sysop@...
Feb 2, 2001 11:59 pm
I am posting this reply on behalf of Sergei Osokin, who emailed it to me one week ago after hitting a snag posting to the GDF in the wake of the eGroups-Yahoo...
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Serguei Osokine
osokin@...
Feb 3, 2001 12:16 am
... Thanks! It seems that in the meantime I have sort of won the war with Yahoo, though... :-) "Sort of", because my first message after this enforced vacation...
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Benno Senoner
sbenno@...
Feb 3, 2001 1:51 pm
... Attention, such a scheme could facilitate DDOS (Distributed Denial Of Service) attacks in the style of smurf (those that brought down Yahoo and others)...
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Tor Klingberg
tor.klingberg@...
Feb 3, 2001 9:19 pm
... It would probably be better sending the results in UDP packets. ... First, no more than say 2 queries per minute from the same IP should be allowed. Also...
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Benno Senoner
sbenno@...
Feb 4, 2001 11:26 am
Hi, I've joined the GDF only recently so might have missed the discussions about the push success rate. Anyway while playing around a bit with BearShare and...
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Shaun Sidwall
shaun@...
Feb 5, 2001 12:00 am
Well looks like like someones been updating wego again. Unfortunately they seem to believe that gnotella is gnutello and have misnamed and linked to nothing....
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Ben Houston
ben@...
Feb 5, 2001 12:46 am
Give one of the people on the "about us" page a shout: http://gnutella.wego.com/go/wego.pages.page?groupId=116705&view=page&pageId= 119515 ...
