"Unable to find incoming port"?

Lately, I've been getting a pop-up error message that says something like, "Unable to find incoming port." It's a tall windowed box that lists all my LimeWire settings, and it says I may need to correct the Forced IP address.

Sure enough, when I review the settings shown in the error box, my Forced IP is listed as a bunch of #$*^@# characters. But I doubled-check in the regular Options setup and the IP shows up correctly. What gives? What's more, when this dialog pops-up, I'm also successfully downloading AND uploading files.

Is the Forced IP purposely obscured in the error box?
Is this error being triggered by a specific host reporting a problem?

Thanks for any help!
- Tony

I'm still getting this on a regular basis. I did a screen capture of the message but don't see any way of posting it here.

Are any of the developers reading this? Do you want to see the error message I get on a regular basis?

You went to Tools:Options:Advanced and checked if forced IP is checked and correct? Did you try unchecking it, retyping it, or making sure port is 6346? Hopefully a real LimeWire guy will answer!

[TruStarwarrior]

If you are having connection problems, which appears to be the case, then you could try out an alternate version of LimeWire. It was released specifically for connection-related difficulties. It shouldn't have the problem you are having now, but it will be slightly slower and the system tray icon may disappear on you.

http://www9.limewire.com/download/LimeWire16d118.exe

Let us know if it worked, ok? :-)

If you want additional info on this release, go here:

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...&threadid=2963

[starren]

I get the same error even while downloading other stuff. I select copy whatever is in that box that is part of the message. I then select okay. Sometimes I hit okay first. I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm just pushing buttons to get the message off my screen. Ican't tell if it affects any downloads or would be downloads.