bet my life someones asked this
 

Hi Guys,

Ive just picked up some Gnutella protocol specs, and want
to start designing a client.
Is there a wellknown ( or permanent address ) , that
someone has setup that acts as the core ( root/seed ) server.

I wish to test client code on gnutella, so do i have to get a group of friends to help me test, or can i simply login to a public
access point and test my code, amongst the actual network..

Thanks

Ash

There IS no central seed-server.

But there are GWebCaches, a disributed seed-serrver-network (if I may call it so).

Check http://gnufu.net for some user-friendly information on Gnutella. You will find a link to the rfc for devs there.
You can simply fire up a client on a computer in your network and let your client try to connect to it.

Please don't connect to the general network, before you test it on a local machine, this could only give you a bad reputation amongst the other developers, if your client should be faulty.

You might want to try phex (http://phex.kouk.de) to check against.
It is very customizable and might fit your needs.

Thankyou very much..
Ill have a look at it now...

Ash