I was watching the search monitor today, and was noticing some seriously funky looking search strings, using lots of extended ascii and such.

Perhaps this is related to the problems people have been having lately.

The other thought i had was maybe there is a compatibility issue between clients gnutella/gnotella/furi/toadnode.

Thoughts? comments?

I've noticed alot of the same in my search results. What's up with all the ascii and such?

See http://forums.gnutellanews.com/Forum5/HTML/000103.html where the poster claims to have found Gnotella tacking extra bytes onto packets.

I have further reason to believe that there may be a compatibility issue between clients. I notice that most of the time i seem to be connected to hosts, because i get bombarded with searches and such and other messages. But the hosts never get recorded in the catcher, and host data numberhosts/files/size never registers.

This with the combination of complete newbie users using insane settings like 20connections, etc. are seriously hurting the network.