I'm bit confused, after reading about PUSH Proxy. I have one simple question regarding this PUSH Proxy process. 1) Where can I find address of Push proxy in...
I'm happy to announce the GDF Wiki is back online: http://wiki.limewire.org/index.php?title=GDF GDF Wiki documents are organized into a category on the...
Great! I rewired http://gnet-specs.gnufu.net to point to the pages in the GDF wiki. Also I downloaded a backup, just in case something might get wrong. Best...
Hey, Glad to see it back up! Saw some spots that could use a bit of "scrubbing". I'll roll up the sleeves this weekend or so and help out... -- Mike [Non-text...
Hi, I recently read "The Protocol Specification v0.4. Document Revision 1.2" and i'm not all that clear on how one can achieve multiple sources downloads. If 2...
v0.4 is extremely outdated (several years). You should instead read the specification on http://gnet-specs.gnufu.net Best wishes, Arne ... -- Unpolitisch sein ...
#### This is an idea, and far from draft state #### Do you think node selection based on similarity in the QRT would be useful? Reasoning for doing so: *...
... Hardly. The QRT is a search table (of which you have only the resulting modulo and not the original keys). Similarity of two QRTs therefore means ...
... It means, that searches which would be forwarded to me are likely to also be forwarded to the other one. So we are similar in the keywords our files...
Hello, I am the author of a gnutella web cache called Beacon Cache. I've noticed there are a lot more specification 1 hits than specification 2 hits. With this...
... The Gnutella Web Cache system has been dead for a long time. The UDP host cache is now the preferred solution. And gtk-gnutella no longer uses the...
Greetings everyone, I am new to gnutella. I have a question about GGEP. The GGEP Specification does not say anything about about the format of the GGEP...
Hi, This list has been a bit quite during the last few months (cutting out the 'please help with specification' posts), so I wanted to ask, who actively works...
Hello David, Welcome to Gnutella. ... Indeed, it is. ... It is the duty of each "key author" to document the format of the values, as stated above. If the...
... No, the Gnutella protocol has reached some level of maturity nowadays. ... Nonetheless, there are things that I'd like to work on when I get some free ...
Hey Arne! How've you been? I'm still around, just quietly watching the few things that come by nowadays. It's indeed a shame that things have fallen to the...
... some free ... that happy ... wrong, ... fuzzy. ... because ... it is ... inter- ... out of ideas, ... implement ... Perhaps this has something to do with...
Hi Michael, I've been studying physics for about 4 years, now, and I learned serious Python programming about 9 months ago (working on an RPG backend for a...
... I see at least one clear solution to that: Write your code community-based and always license it under the GPL, so you aren't a good target. Shooting you...
... What do you think about papers like the following: - http://www.holger-kampffmeyer.de/?q=de/node/97 Improving searching through epidemic spreading. Or some...
I have looked through the Gnutella documentation, but I cannot seem to find the answer to this. The documentation says that if the servent that contains the...
... Not exactly: it's not possible through TCP but possible through UDP that does not require the allocation of a port number to the incoming connection. For...
Hello, The LimeWire specs for the DHT are a promising start, but after reading them a looking at how I would implment something inter-operable, I have the...
Thanks for the explanation. I've found an easy-to-understand explanation of UDP hole punching, outlined step-by-step (for Skype, but it applies to p2p as...
Hello, After reading the message format Wiki page, I need to change the followin ... Indeed, on first reading I had missed the fact that a FIND_NODE would ...
Hello Raphael, About the security token: I think this link is where securityToken was introduced. http://wiki.limewire.org/index.php?title=OutOfBandV3 This...
Hello Peng, ... It is unfortunate that there is no lifetime attached to the generated security tokens. I guess it's too late to change that now, since the ...
Hi all, I have a suggestion for using the DHT to find download sources. Since it works differently to a standard Kademlia lookup I thought I'd ask for comments...