frostwire error wont go away
 

i recently uninstalled my limewire and downloaded frostwire. all of my lw songs are on fw but i can touch them!!!after fw loads up, this little error bubble pops up saying
"frostwire is unable to connect to hosts on the gnutella network. this is most often due to firewalls or content-filtering software blocking gnutella (port 6346). please reveiw your firewalls options to allow frostwire to access the gnutella network or speak to your system administrator or isp to determine if gnutella traffic is being filtered."

it then has the ok button but it wont go away!!!!!!!!!!!!!fw continues to load and share all 2326 of my files but until i figure out how to make this stupid thing go away i cant get my music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:bangh::bangh::ba ngh::bangh::bangh:





HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!


system details
1. OS version? (eg: Windows 98) If using Windows Vista, please tell us whether you have an Administrator user account.
windows sumthing...
2. What firewalls you have?
eh windows???
3. How much ram?
idk
4. Hard Disk space available?
idk
5. Connection type? (eg: dialup, broadband, cable, etc.)
broadband
6. Modem & router brand name & model numbers?
wats that???
7. Where are you trying to connect from (house, appartment complex, school, student accomodation, work, etc.)?
home
8. What version of LimeWire (LW) & Java do you have? (Go to LW's menu Help>About LW...) Will show both LW & Java version.
i hav the latest version of fw (4.13.5)
9. Who is your ISP (Internet Service Provider)?idk...
10. Do this simple test for us. Using your browser go here: http://www3.limewire.com:6346/ The page should say 'Your test worked!'. What happens when you go there?
it worked
11. Are you sharing the connection with other computers or p2p sharing programs? If yes, please give details of set up.
nope
12. Is this a your 1st try at LW or is this a new problem with an experienced user.
weve had limewire for a while but it just started messing up
13. Do you see a brick wall in front of the blue world icon at the bottom of LW's interface? _ click here to see Sample image
yeah
14. For those using a modem/router, how is your modem/router set up...are you port forwarding or is UPnP enabled?
huh???
15. What security programs are you using (antivirus etc)? Some people might not be aware that their security suite includes a firewall
we hav norton but it doesnt work lmao we hav like 2 viruses lmao hahahaha
16. What country are you living in? Sometimes there are ISPs with the same name in more than one country (eg Clearwire in the USA & also in Ireland).
usa



hope thats enough...if anyone knows where i can find out the rest of the stuff just let me know

:xirokrotima:

well strangly i found out that the little bubble wouldnt go away cuz it was piling up on its self!!!!!!!!over and over it another one would pop up on top of the others.i had just enough time to transfer all the files to my itunes but it still pops up so i still need to figure out how to make it go away any ideas???

As much as I can ascertain, you have a firewall issue. You said in PM you'd been thru the forums, if that were the case then you'd have read the forum rules about supplying your details, which is also requested in the information & suggestions listed in the FW & LW connection problems post. :)

It really does get tiring having to ask people this System details - help us to help you (click on blue link) when it's already in the Forum Rules to supply these details in your post. We can't help without them. ;)

true that
 

yes that is true but in all reality i dont know too much about computers but ill do wat i can with the details...any advice while i work on that???:wai:

This wretched internal error message is showing up every day ; is there some way of getting rid of it permanently ;???

Frostwire 4.21.8

massive number of uploads from host 82.16.55.81 ;

should i block this host and is there some way to work out what port the bot is using ???

That's not a known bot ip from my knowledge. I'll see if I can find a utility for you to find ports connected hosts are using.
Which program are they using?

Winmx i think .

How about using Run, type in command & enter.
Type in Netstat into the prompt & enter.
That will give you a list of all connections. Find the ip address of the one in question to find its port.
There's no doubt better ways but that's what I can find for now.

That is very good ; i have opened up fw and will reply when i have trapped the host .

SAdly , THINGS HAVE CHANGED A BIT ;

Likewise an unrecorded ip. Did you find their port number?

So is that port 33266 ??

It tends to look that way for the port, but I am not experienced with Netstat. Both those addresses are from different countries (UK & USA).
Whenever you come across strange greedy behaviour like that where they are trying to download 'everything' they can, (1) ban/block their ip address in the program you are using, (2) report them to me, perhaps privately via PM if necessary.

Something I reported 12 months ago in a private section of the forum was that after I blocked certain main ip ranges of the UK, I no longer received 'any' spam (with the rare odd exceptions). I was not sure of the co-relationship between the UK and elsewhere but suggested something there. I did that as a test btw & was not a permanent block but lasted 2-3 months.

And yes I found UK to be a high percentage upload sucker for files in a similar fashion. (this was the very reason I tested the blocks, but had no idea it would have such a side-effect to block out spam also.)


One issue is that some hosts might be using proxies and return with a totally different address the next day, perhaps an address originating from a different country.

I haven't been thinking much on this topic for a while because it seemed not too many people were interested in the blocklists I was putting together which took a lot of my time to do overall including the analysing, checking for static or dynamic status, comparing, adding to initial research lists and then if necessary to multiple output lists, etc.

Same program again , winmx 5.1.0 ;

is that relevant or important ;??

I suspect you see a co-relationship. ;) A google suggests there was a 5.1 update in October however. Though it's called the WinMX Free version which sounds suspicious to me.

When I tried to download a copy of it, all my WinMX Music connections vanished. Purely coincidence I know.

Sleepless has not tried this but suggested Wireshark · Go Deep for checking hosts & ports. I tried the Mac version & found it a little complex. But there are online How to do's if interested. There's an obvious learning curve involved with it.
You might be just as happy with Netstat instead.