XoloX connect error - Hostslists.txt

[Pasman]

Dear Users,

We noticed that our initial Gnutella hosts aren't working ok. (again ). Sorry for this inconvenience..

Characteristics:
XoloX announces : ' Can't connect to network' when you start the application.

Work around:
Totally close XoloX (also in the taskbar).
Download this attachment and place it in your xolox directory.
Restart the application.

Impact on longer term:
Once XoloX gets a stable connection, it will build a hostslist itself.

Request:
To keep this hostlist updated, I would like to ask to other XoloX Users to place their hostlist.txt in this thread too. Thanks..



Greets,
Pasman

Hey Pasman,

not only are you good looking but clever also!! (are you married? lol)

your fix worked fine - thank you!!

enkele reis naar amsterdaam alstublieft!!

Jude x

have followed your instructions and still no xolox
any ideas?

[inevitability_of_death]

ive installed the list, and i still cannot access xolox, any tips??thxs

[Moak]

Here is my current hostlist (20:19 GMT+1), if you wanna try. I had no problems with gnutella today.

Pasman, what is the purpose of the hostlist and why is it not full human readable? Thx, Moak

Tried uninstalling/ reinstalling, tried the fix, still not working

[The Seeker]

Originally posted by Moak
Pasman, what is the purpose of the hostlist and why is it not full human readable? Thx, Moak

Hostlist.txt is a host cache you keep to make connecting to the network faster. I assume it's not human readable so people can't use it to easily harvest G'net user's IPs. (Using XoloX anyway)

[Moak]

Hi Seeker!

Harvest gnutella IPs, I understand. Hmm it's much more efficient to ask a gnutella host cache for harvesting and bad spys can use 'netstat' anyways. Security by obscurity, does not help for my taste but limit some features a human readable hostcache would give (prefered hosts trade with friends or LAN). However...

Another thingy, which are Xolox host caches ("initial gnutella hosts"), wouldn't it make sense to let the users edit the gnutella host caches too?

Back to coding.... CU

how do I put something into the directory?

[mvoosten]

BTW 1.12 let you enter a host manualy in the preferences window.