Why you can't connect
 

Folks,

As you've probably noticed, we are currently having problems with our bootstrap server, router.limewire.com. This makes it difficult to connect to the network. We are working 24x7 to fix the problem and are hoping to resolve it by the end of the day, but we can't make any guarantees.

In the meanwhile, you might want to try placing connect3.gnutellanet.com at the top of your auto-connect host list (bottom left corner of the the Connections tab).

Thanks for your patience.

Sincerely,
Christopher Rohrs
Senior Software Engineer
LimeWire

Problem fixed
 

We believe we've fixed the problem now. Thanks again for your patience.

-Christopher Rohrs

Re: Problem fixed
 

I haven't been able to connect at all to any locations. What can I do or check to see what the matter is?

I havent been able to use limewire all week, so tonight i downloaded gnotella, and hated the gnotella interface but had no problems connecting. so i added the gnotella hosts to the limewire autoconnect hosts list and limewire is now connecting
connect1.gnutellanet.com
connect2.gnutellanet.com
connect3.gnutellanet.com
connect4.gnutellanet.com

Gnotella autoconnect hosts
 

Is there a port associated with the host mentioned in the previous post (i.e. connect1.gnutellanet.com, connect2.gnutellanet.com, connect3.gnutellanet.com, connect4.gnutellanet.com) ? Should I assume it would be 6346?

Yes, port 6346 unless otherwise specified.

I tryed everything you said (rewritting the autoconnect hosts) and it doesent even try to connect to any host whats the problem?

I too, have suffered from connection problems for about the last month. Sometimes I have to clear the discovered hosts list and the connected hosts list and immediately exit and then start the program up again. This, however, does not always work. Router.limewire.com appears to be dead most of the time, so remove this from your autoconnect list if its there. Today, the only thing that has allowed me to connect was adding the first address returned from a lookup on gnutella-again.hostscache.com

Even as I type this, I notice the number of hosts supplied from this machine is now down to 6, from a high of 120 a couple of minutes ago. Sigh.

I am growing weary of having to play all of these games just to get a decent connection. It used to work so well... I wish I knew what the underlying problem was. I have a nice DSL connection and its almost useless with current state of the gnutella network as presented by LameWire.

connect3
 

I am glad to hear that you guys are working on getting the connection problem fixed asap. But the connect3.gnutellanet.com (as well as connect1, 2, and 4) are not working either.

I look forward to be back up and running with Limewire (because i have been not able to get in for a long time). Hope you guys can figure out the problem.

no connection no matter what i try
 

Well, I've tried everything suggested here, and I can't get limewire to connect to gnutella at all. Half the time, after it's gone through the autoconnect list, I can press connect and it won;t even try to connect. Exiting and reloading does nothing. Ideas? skyhillan@aol.com

I too have gone down
 

I was d/l'ing just fine yesterday, and I woke up today and I cant get any kind of connection. Even carrying out all the actions posted by the Staff.

Same here. I enjoyed limewire and thought it had potential. too bad

server problems again
 

We are experiencing temporary server problems again this morning (October 26). We're working hard to fix it. Thanks for your patience.

Sincerely,
Christopher Rohrs
LimeWire

Fixed my tushie :(
 

WTF?!? Nothing has been "fixed".

I read the FAQ.
I have tried your suggestions, Ive rewritting the autoconnect hosts, and LW doesen't even *TRY* to connect to any host - it just sits there useless with that infernal read dot next to "connect".
I have been messing with this thing for over two hours ... It worked fine yesterday, now what's the problem? When are you ppl going to do something about it?

PS - Im using a Mac, if it matters.

oooh shirty
 

if i was you, id ask for my money back !

i am sure things will be sorted soon. i use limewire just about 24/7 and this is the first time in months that i have had any serious problems.

I've used this program for a few months now and have seen it get progressively better overall. This connection issue has been the biggest problem I have encountered as of yet but I trust it will be fixed shortly.
Besides, LimeWire is free and the programmers work very hard to keep it up and running, so give 'em some time and they will get it right.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK GUYS

cant connect
 

Not everyone knows that. Not everyone has used LimeWire for months. To new users we need information for veterans like yourselves to make us aware that it indeed is a temporary problem.

:mad:
I am annoyed because I downloaded it, it worked for a day and a half, now its refusing to connect to anything. In three days its worked less then half the time, and the little time it was connected most downloads didn't finish

:confused:
I also dont understand something ... if this peer-to-peer filesharing "does not use a central server like Napster" and "cannot be shut down" then why can't we connect?

centralized servers
 

LimeWire doesn't require a centralized server to connect, but it makes things faster and more convenient.

The servers that LW connects to on startup, router.limewire.com and connectX.gnutellanet.com provide you a few initial hosts to connect to. From there, LW can find other hosts and operate completely autonomously. The problem is that router.limewire.com AND connectX.gnutellanet.com are ALL down. That's why we're encouraging people to go to connect3.bearshare.net. But if you know friends who are connected, you can just connect directly to them and everything will be ok. Or if you disable the "Use QuickConnect hosts" option, LW will try to connect to the addresses stored in your gnutella.net file.

Incidentally, our servers appear to be the victim of a "syn flood" denial of service (DoS) attack. Now why would anyone want to do that?

-Christopher Rohrs

connection problems
 

@ crohrs
Thanks for posting and taking the time to answer my question - your info was very helpful to me and I think I understand how peer-to-peer filesharing works a little better now.
I don't know any friends who are connected that I can connect to, but with your tip I was able to get connected to "bearshare.net". THANK YOU.
I hope whatever your flood denial is that it's something you can fix soon. I think eBay had something like that about a year ago, it was just awful.
Anyway, Thanks for doing a great job for all of us who use this program :)

DoS atack huh?
 

That is just wrong. Some stupid punk messing arround. Glad to hear you know what the problem is and that you are working to fix it.

I've grown up with Limewire since 1.2.
Every once in a while I try another share program - like bearshare - to see if it can top Limewire - but I keep coming back.
Today I upgraded to 1.7c - and had the same connect issues - then went to limewire.com - and it was down.
I was grateful that it was just a server problem - cause there is no client better than limewire.
And when I did what "crohrs" said "connect through bearshare.net:6346" - ALL WORKS GREAT AGAIN!

Give these people a fair shake - after all look at what you get compared to what you pay.

Hey thanks guys. Mine is working this morning.

connect problems - bearshare server fixed
 

totally connect to the bearshare server
connect3.bearshare.net
that's what worked for me.
and to the punk *** that DoS attacked the limewire servers...sleep with one eye open buddy. stoopid attacks like that are worse than bicycle theft in my book!

limewire rocks the free world and my lame ***.

DoS attack
 

I read somewhere that the major record companies were planning on conducting denial of service attacks on file-sharing networks that they weren't able to sue. Any chance that's what this is?

Can't Connect...
 

I only downloaded Limewire about a week ago... I love this thing. I can't believe how many "uploads" there are... it never seems to end... had to reduce the number of connections allowed during business hours... slowed my Mac down like crazy.

Meanwhile, I am VERY satisfied with this little utility gizmo software thingy...... other than the fact for the last two daze I couldn't get the thing to connect.

However I am a mildly patient person, so I can wait till the powers-that-be fix whatever it is that is schmuckered. I can't complain... it didn't cost me a flippin dime and I am way ahead of the game.

The people that are responsible for LimeWire's creation and ongoing support are obviously NOT politicians, cause IF they were, it wouldn't work at all, and they would have their hands out looking to fill their pockets.

I would like to state that I am very grateful that there are still people of this calibre inhabiting this mentally challenged planet... I think they should consider politics so we can all benefit from their benevolence.

Logged On OK
 

Well I decided to give it one more try so people could get my files... and boink... went right on without a glitch...
Gotta Love It

:D

I don't think that record companies would want to get involved in attacking the open source, and p2p communities!
it would be rather foolish, and quite possibly asking for retaliation?

I tried to find the story I originally read about the dinial of service attacks. Here is the link: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...818064,00.html

hosts
 

I have found that lately I keep getting connected to computers that only have one host. I have to keep removing them from the connections window until I get connected to computers with hosts. Any idea whats up with that?

router.limewire.com back up
 

Hi everyone. We think we fixed the problem with router.limewire.com and www.limewire.com over the weekend. Thanks for your patience!

Woolrich: don't be worried about the # of hosts shown per connection. Those numbers aren't so accurate. If you're getting a lot of traffic in the monitor window, you're probably well connected. If not, try opening more connections.

-Christopher Rohrs
LimeWire

This is an outrage!

Connection
 

I have feverishly tried to get limewire to connect. I am using a G3, with 9.2 installed. It starts to connect to the network , but then decide it does not want to . Could this be a firewall problem. or will bearshare work. Help?


Perkel
operkel@mac.com

All I know is that I love Limewire but haven't been able to successfully connect in about a month. It's very discouraging.

Unregistered: router.limewire.com has been up and running better than ever since Sunday. Perhaps you have a configuration problem. Do you have entries in your quick-connect hosts lists on the connections tab? Are you running a recent version of LW? Is your keep-alive>0? Are you behind a very restrictive firewall?

Its a bummer some of you are still experiencing connection problems. I suffered from this until about 6 days ago. Now it stays connected most of the time (not always, though).

I have played many games to make this work, but it appears that the most important thing was to make sure that every host in the autoconnect list is up. EVERY host. I would think that limewire would just skip a down host, but this does not appear to be the case for me. At the very least the behavior is non-deterministic.
Right now I have connect4.bearshare.net, connect1-3.gnutellanet.com and gnutella-again.hostscache.com in the list.
I also select "prefer autoconnect hosts". I have very little faith in discovered hosts and clear out the gnutella.net file every time I restart. Similarly, if I see a bunch of hosts with the status of "connecting..." for longer than a minute (less when I feel impatient), I remove them. This brings in a set of new hosts for limewire to try. Sometimes this is just a cat-and-mouse game, but at least I see limewire working.
Occasionally, I will check out www.gnufrog.com, and add one of those machines under "Connected Hosts" (Check the port, its not always 6346)

This has been working for the last 6 days, meaning that I am able to download and upload, and usually have between 1000 and 3000 hosts on my connections tab. During busy times of the day (10am - 7pm ET), the number of hosts can fluctuate wildly.

I like gnutella networking a lot, but I fear the problems we are all experiencing are related to an inherent scalability problem with the current design. I won't bore you with the details, but, mathematically, the current design is far less than ideal (Trust me, I am being extremely kind). I hope that the wizards that created it are working on the next generation. BTW, I am not talking about LimeWire here, I am talking about whats underneath.

Please help me.
 

For the past 2 weeks I have been totally unable to connect. None of the advice given in this forum has made any difference. I've even scrapped LimeWire, reinstalled it, and nothing. I use 'proven' hosts from GnuFrog.com and get nothing. All of the bearshare hosts do not connect either. Someone please help me.

Ok I am new to this and I have read this entire thread and none of it seems to answer my question.

I downloaded the latest version, everything went fine no error messages. When I opened the program and tried to connect nothing happened. I looked in my connections and there aren't any. I have five in my autoconnect hosts box but nothing in my connected hosts box. When I try to move them autoconnect to connected hosts it doesn't work. I click add and nothing happens. Please help me.

Thanks in advance

Thanks for the info.

I can never get connected
 

I can never get connected. I recently downloaded the new version and it still doesn't work. Last version worked for a while but I still had trouble connecting at first. Also where the heck is the chat on this thing.

getting a connection
 

I recently downloaded limewire because a good friend has it and i think it's the coolest program i've ever messed with. But i can't get any hoasts. How do i get started?

I only get a connection once adding connect3.bearshare.net to my list of connections, after this I only get about 30 hosts max and more often than not none....and most of the servers in the conect list say connecting.....

also I might add that the interface of my copy of limewire (1.8b) is quite different to that of the one in the tutorial and doesn't have a few of the options....is this because I am on a mac (wouldn't have thought so as the prog is java...)

when I connect to LimeWire the number of connections grows up to
600...and after 5-10 min. it's like everybody is disconnected
so I can't do anything!!
where's the problem ??
thanks for the help!

Nicolas

(sorry for my english...I come from belgium!)

I cannot connest
 

I am not able to connect. The only thing that is different is the way I am connecting. I used to have a cable modem and I never had a problem. Now I connect through AOL and am not able to get a connection. Any ideas?

Kelly

Mac OS X won't connect
 

I'm running Mac OS X and I downloaded Limewire 18-c and it won't connect at all. It usually doesn't even make an attempt. I'm connecting through school, so i think I might be behind a firewall, could that be the problem? Whatever it is I hope someone can tell me how to connect. I used limewire before, and when it connected, it was great! so, Help! please. Thnx.

OS 9.2
 

Me again. It won't connect in the 10 version or the 9.2 version. Is something going on w/ the server I should know about? Please help.

Evan

so when is limewire going to be working properly then? and i don't mean when you think it will be working or partially working?

is your ISP blocking port 6346?
 

I think most of the "can't connect" problems aren't our fault. Our bootstrap server, router.limewire.com, has been running flawlessly for weeks now. Often when someone can't connect, it's because their ISP is blocking outgoing connections to port 6346, the Gnutella default. Try telnetting to router.limewire.com port 6346. If you don't see "GNUTELLA OK", holler at your ISP; there's nothing we can do.

gnutella ok, but still can't connect
 

I telnetted to router.limewire.com 6346 and i got the "GNUTELLA OK" message. Nevertheless, I haven't been able to connect for a couple weeks. I was using 1.7 and it wasn't working, so I upgraded to 1.8, and it still isn't working. I'm using a mac with sys 8.6. ???

no connection
 

I have the same problem. I run Mac OS 9.1, and until about two weeks ago Limewire was working fine. When it stopped working I upgraded to 1.8c, and it still doesn't work. When I first open the program it tries to connect and fails, then it won't even try at all. Anyone have any ideas?

Re: no connection
 

I'm also unable to connect to limewire... I connected fine before the Thanksgiving holidays (to 16) and have been unable to connect since... I dowloaded 18c and not only can I not connect but when I click connect it won't even attempt to establish a connection. Also, were the community tab, the"connect" button, the list of discovered hosts and autoconnect hosts under the connections tab supposed to be missing from the 18c interface?

Thanks for your help and I hope this can be fixed. Limewire is a great program.