Network broken?
 

Over the past few days I've noticed some really odd behavior from gnutella. Doesn't matter whether I'm running the real thing or one of the clones, I get the same stuff:

Server counts are way down. In the past, I could expect to see anywhere from 2000-4000 servers online at any given time. Now, I'm showing somewhere between 1 and 50. It'll even tell me there's only 2 hosts when I've been connected to 4 for an hour.

Connections are getting dumped en masse. I'll be connected to 4 or 5 people, lose connection to all of them at once, and have to start from ground zero. Never saw this until recently.

Searches produce few, if any, results. I ran a search on Pink Floyd before getting dinner, came back an hour later, and had only 3 matches. Something's definitely awry; I've gotten tons of Floyd mp3s off gnutella in the past few months. Even the obvious keywords (porn, etc) often result in no matches.

I share a number of files and I usually see around 1000 uploads a day. For most of this week, I haven't gotten any more than 10 per day.

Yet despite all this, my gnucache host is serving more folks than ever. 4000+ today, which is pretty much an all-time high... And I haven't publicized my gnucache IP for quite some time.

The only developer resource I could find was gnutelladev.wego.com, but their discussion forum is practically deserted. Where are the developers lately, and do they know what's going on with the network?

My only guess so far is that someone (perhaps hired by RIAA?) has created a rogue client which drops all packets once a connection has been established... Or perhaps folks are configuring their clone's ban list with an obscenely large number of terms. This sort of client running in several locations at once could have some pretty negative results on the network.

Any ideas?

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Yep, you're right. Gnutellanet is completely on its knees at the moment. Only about 50 servers available, how hard you try.
Maybe a new (but buggy) version of one of the more popular clients is beeing distributed? Now, when all the old napster users are going over to gnutella, it doesn't seem to be the right moment that the network goes down...

You mean someone can take down GnutellaNet by just introducing a bugged version? I bet the RIAA would be behind that. Aghhhh!!!

I noticed hosts going down after installing Gnotella 0.7. It overwrites some system file (I don't remember which one). Try START/Execute SFC ,which is some MS repair program. Reinstall the file it prompts for (I think it starts with an S...). Now I have 1200+ hosts again...

Good Luck!

Can you repeat the procedure to reach more hosts?????

I'm really new to this. Thanks..

No, it just replaces the original file(s).

i have windows 2000 no program can overwrite my system files. and i did have that .70 on my machine for a while. i also was using gnotella and all songs from it downloaded with skips in them. but when i went to gnucleus i found that it was fast and worked well, and diddnt have skips in the songs. too bad gnucleus doesnt have skins http://forums.gnutellanews.com/wink.gif

im not experiencing any network problems with gnutella. i just searched for pink floyd and found 803 matches. make that 804..

This made a lot of difference for me! I was on the verge of giving up, but now it looks like it will work after all.