No, except your operating system. Maybe there are dead IP connections blocking new ones and there is a limited number of connections available. Does a reboot help?

To your older question:
Just for the case that you don't like to be conected by a host blocking others.

Helge

Music industries trying to attack at the mom
 

> No why should I do it?

Because the music industy (the big ones) is trying to get file sharing down by blocking hosts, uploading bad files etc.

error : connection refused
 

Connection refused
is all I have ever got from MacPhex. I tried under OS 10.15 and now under OS 10.2, but the results is the same. Lots of attempts to connect, but all refused almost instantly.

Using NAT with forced IP and port 6346 opened on router. Limewire doesn't work that well, but it does connect. What am I doing wrong?

Is there a conspiracy afoot?
 

Hello,

I started using Phex with version 0.6.4 and recently upgraded to 0.7.3. I'm running Windows 2000 behind a NAT router with my IP hard-coded for export and the Phex port open in the firewall. I share over 900MB in 301 files.

I have had difficulty connecting to other peers on the network. I can connect to the auto-connect hosts to get an initial list of IPs in the host-catcher...but I can't connect to the peers. I get a lot of "503 - full" errors, and far too many "connection refused" errors.

When I do manage to connect, I don't stay connected for very long. The peers drop the connection, I get "JVM error messages", or I get a "deprecated, no broadcast foward" messages (what does that mean, exactly?).

As for the connection refused, I have two theories:

1. Other vendors are coding to reject connections from Phex
2. My IP address was recently rotated. The previous person with this IP may have been an evil Gnutella user (distributing viruses and the like) and has been marked as "ignore" by just about everyone. :(

Are there any thoughts about this? Have I missed something vital? I've read other threads that talk about this problem, but there never seems to be any answers. I tried uninstalling and re-installing Phex but to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time,

Clayton Rumley

Re: Is there a conspiracy afoot?
 

When you do a uninstall, make shure you delete all Phex files from your Documents and settings folder

Problems with Phex 0.7.3
 

I've installed Phex 0.7.3 recently and it seems there are a lot of bugs in this release, at least it appears so on my configuration (Win2000, JDK1.3).

It looses download list, there are some problems with configuration settings form (sometimes it doesn't close), and it throws a lot of exceptions in the output window.

The 0.7.2 release I use today seems to work fine, except maybe connection timeout problem it has when unable to locate an IP address, and it should be removed manually from the queue (If there is such a need I have a nice workaround on the connection timeout problem in java.net.HTTPConnection class).


I haven't noticed any bugs the new release removed, it certainly introduced many new ones. Am I wrong? It would be nice to see any comments on that I've just written about...

Download list dropping
 

At least, It seems I've found why Phex 0.7.2 loses its download list. I've been trying to work with phexdownload.xml file, and I've found the problem is in "#" characters. The software successfully writes above file with these characters (e.g. in filenames), but can't read it back!!!