alternative to port 6346?
 

If this port is not available, do you have other suggestions?

Usually, ports above 1024 are still available for you to use. You could start by increasing your current port number by just one, say, 6347, 6348, etc.

Or did you mean something else?

The problem is that I'm behind a firewall. I guess that port 6346 is not open and that's why I cannot connect to the gnutella server.

I'm using BearShare as client, in the NETWORK setup page I can change the port number, but also if I put 80, 443, 23, 25, 110, or a number higher then 6346 it is still not able to connect.

Maybe this client network setting means something else, or maybe I've just to find out which port is open, no idea.

Some time ago I could connet to another server, not using port 6346, but I cannot remember. So maybe my question should sound: Do you know other server using ports numbers different then 6346?

Thanks in advance,

Max

First, go download Gnucleus. It's better behind a firewall and it's free and spyware free.
http://www.gnucleus.net/

And does your firewall block outgoing connections also? If so this may be your problem.

maybe there is something with the outgoing connections.

With Gnucleus it is also hanging during connecting, I did not try alternative hosts yet but it's not sound good at the moment.
When you set the port number what does it mean? That outgoing stuff pass through it or incoming stuff?
Are there other hosts not using port 6346, like gnet.ath.cx:8080, that I can try?

So it's outgoing connections to port 6346 that don't make it? By default, firewalls don't restrict that port for outgoing connections, so I'd rather look a bit further than the firewall to your Internet provider. Are you on a campus? I noticed a lot of sysadmins at universities are blocking access to the Gnutella ports.

What you can do instead, is find a public HTTP proxy (NOT a SOCKS proxy) and a Gnutella client that supports HTTP proxies. Public HTTP proxies are a bit hard to find, particularly the ones that allow outgoing connections above the 1024 range.

So what does this HTTP proxy solve? Most HTTP proxies listen on port 80 or 443. These two ports are usually open for everyone, because they are the ones you connect to when you visit a regular Website. But instead of being a regular website, you can ask an HTTP proxy to connect to someoene else *for* you. So, you'd connect to a HTTP proxy on port 80, and that proxy will connect to someone else on the given host and port, and thereafter will forward all data back and forth between you.

Why not just make all gnutella servers to use port 80???

Hmmmm.... not a good idea I think. It's the same port that browsers use for http.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

It's actually the port web servers use. This would still pose the problem that many ISPs block incoming requests to port 80 to keep their customers from running web servers (running servers usually violates the service agreement.)