XoloX connect error - Hostslists.txt
 

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

it works!!
 

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?

no luck so far
 

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

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

hostlist.txt
 

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)

Re
 

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 :)

What is a directory?
 

how do I put something into the directory?

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

my working list
 

well. i had no problem with the connection or the speed
ony my xolox freezes now and more than.
if anybody has a version prior 1.11 i would like to try if this solves the problem
attached my working hostlist
costa

Worked
 

Tainx - worked like a charm. xolox for king.

Followed your instructions, but it still does not work. What can I do?

downloaded the list to my directory restarted the program and no joy? What gives? It checked all the servers.

Does not work?
 

Still problems to connect + the update of the hostlists does not work.... ?
Hmm, maybe this helps: Follow this thread

works fine
 

works fine whit this patch thanks...

Whenever I try to download the fix file for xolox, my computer opens it like a text file. I was wonderingif there is a setting somewhere that I can use to fix this/change this to make my computer accept teh file.

If you have the posibility to SAVE instead of OPEN, then try save.
If not: Just ignore that it is opened as a text file (it is a text file), save it on your desktop/hardisk (File - Save).

Now continue the normal procedure (explained by pasman) for replacing the files.

instaled the file ran xolox no change, installed the file ran xolox worked. but then this restart solution worked before so not well tested by me.

Either way the app is much faster and better results than limewire the other gnet app i used.

Worked fine for me.

file stream error
 

I can search fine, when I try to d/l I get a file stream error in windows xp. Used to work fine till I moved from my d to c drive. I removed all of the old xolox files and reindtalled 1.12.

Re: file stream error
 

File stream error is discussed in another thread (see here).

Attachments not on, but heres my hostslist.

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Worked for me, thanks!
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Note:
 

The as stated in another thread, but probably more relevent here:

The reason XoloX's internal host connections aren't working, to the best of my knowledge, is that you are hard coding IPs to connect to:

IP = resolves to (alias) = bearshare's ability to conenct.
63.211.153.119 = galena.gnutelliums.com = timeout
64.61.25.139 = host3-limewire.colo.ny.np1.net (router.limewire.com) = timeout
208.239.76.100 = (unable to resolve) = refused
216.231.59.208 = vawlk.dsl.speakeasy.net = timeout
208.245.164.155 = boss.fileflash.com = refused
24.95.35.22 = (unable to resolve) = timeout

Only 2 of there are identifyable to me as common host cache sites, and none of them could be connected to when I tried.

It would be MUCH better to store the aliases like connect(1-4).bearshare.net, router.limewire.com, etc. in case the IPs suddenly need to change, so you don't have to alter your software to keep up with the changes.

Hi Seeker,
thx for your good investigation work. Damn, it gets boring to repeat it, but's true. :)
Good to know, what happens and how Xolox gets his initially IPs. So I think one of the most important feature in a new version could be: not to hardcode host caches, no IPs as you said and store them into a file e.g. 'hostchaches.txt'.

About your question: Setting registry entry 'firsttime' to 'true', does not help, actually it is equivalent with deleting the complete Xolox branch... both results in setup setting from scratch, no plausabilty checks are done for hostslist.txt.

Bye, Moak

PS: Aren't more programmers willing to offer the XOlox team assistance in coding and is the Xolox team interested?

I've been having trouble connecting to the network for about two weeks now. I've checked all my LAN settings through the University here, I don't know what's wrong.

Hi Moak & the Seeker,

The initialhost list will be enlarged in the next version.
We are still testing the ip-naming adres option. This is resulting in some problems (with DNS convert) when people use firewalls.

Thanks for the analyzing job !!

Pasman
The XoloX-Team

Hi Pasman,
I think the problem must be somewhere else. DNS is a basic item for internet, internet access without DNS is impossible... at least in a "norma enduser" environment. Even on standard firewalls DNS works, so when you have a working internet access (aka http), you can be sure the DNS is working too.


--- added 2001-10-01 ---
PS: While playing around with DNS today (stupid windows shares won't connect to //IP/share)... I thought about IP coded hostchaches in Xolox. Maybe you wanted to speed Xolox startup? If the cached hostslist doesn't provide enough speed for connection to gnutella network, store the resolved host cache IPs together with the hostnames in a 'hostcaches.txt'. Use the IPs for fast startup and update the IPs from the names whenever they changed. Just my 0.02 Euro.

Hostlists.txt
 

Pasman

Been reading with interest the thread about hostslist.xt. As a new user I have put a posting on the support section (New User Queries...still waiting a response on that) but I think this thread may answer one of my queries.

Can you tell me what the hostlist.txt file actually does? I assume that if I had put an entry in the add host window this would have created a hostslist.txt file as I didn't have that file.

I've now installed one of the hostlist.txt file I found on the thread but I couldn't see any visible change when running xolox.

Be grateful for a quick explian if you can.

Thanks

What is the hostslist for?
 

This question has allready answered by Seeker at the beginning of this thread (see the first page - click on the "1" on the top of the page now). The "Add host" feature does currently not work correct, but it's function is allready described in another thread ...and now also there.

HTTP P2P
 

Hello All,
Xolox doesn't work for me as well, even after I used the host file. I suppose my network configuration doesn't allow me to use a network without HTTP/FTP proxy. Kazaa doesn't work either. Does anybody know how to configure Xolox to make it connect and/or any other program that is working entirely through HTTP.

Thank you.

XoloX
 

Hi Pasman,

It did work very good, after 2 days:"Network connection error". tried everything but still nothing. What next?

Groeten Rinz

Re: HTTP P2P
 

Use a Socks proxy if available or try tunneling Socks through HTTP? Many companies/schools restrict firewall traversals to http requests only. Socks2HTTP provides a SOCKS server, tunneling connections through a existing HTTP proxy (e.g. squid). This tunelling definitely is more geek stuff (and maybe forbidden in your place due to heavy traffic or possible copyright violations in P2P). Feel free to try (and plz give a feedback):
http://www.totalrc.net/s2h/index.html

Hope it helps, Moak

Thumbs up (worked a treat - thnx)
 

:-) That did the trick cheers.

Network Connections ( I think...)
 

You guys are talking about things waaaay over my poor old head, but...
I keep getting a popup in the main screen that asks if I want to reconfigure my network connection.

Doh?

I'm on a DSL modem via USB. When I signed up, I chose LAN as my connection.

Did Da' Kid screw up?

Should I have selected "connected to the computer via a modem"?

Do I have to sacrifice a sheep?

Da' *** Gon' On Here?

All replies gratefully accepted.

Me.

I had the same problem to but i had my old list from a earlier installation :)

GreetzZ Phantium

Does not work?
 

Still problems to connect + the update of the hostlists does not work.... ?

Make sure you are using Xolox V1.12 and using a new hostslist.txt!
Hmm, maybe this helps: Follow this thread

Success!
 

Thank you, Moak. It worked like a charm.... apparently I had a corrupted or incorrect hostsfile but as soon as I wiped it and installed yours the program loaded all hosts and is chugging along quite happily.

Quite a nice program, incidentally....
my compliments to the chef(s).

Mandolin Man

cool man & happy sharing :D

i do not understand how you are supposed to download that page?

Hostslists Eroor
 

I have tried 7 or 8 times to add hostslist to my directory but without any success. I cannot find any hostslist.txt files ....old or new........and all I have in the directory is a file called Templist.txt ...... but is totally empty. I have V1.12....dowmloaded

Any suggestions ....please

Hostslist.txt saving
 

Try this... assuming you're in Windows...

Go to Moaks post above awhere he says "try this thread" and look for his attachment of "hostslist.txt". Right-click on that and choose "save target as". When the download window comes up, choose to save it into your Xolox directory directly or into My Documents. If you choose My Documents, as soon as it is downloaded, open My Documents and drag/drop the file into the Xolox directory.

Shut down Xolox and restart... give it a few minutes to download all the hosts in Moak's list.... it's pretty extensive.

Hope that helps!

Mandolin Man

Aaargh!
 

By 'no joy', do you mean you are downloading nothing or is there some other symptom?

If you type' let's say, "palmer" into the search bar, you should see a tab come up with that word on it and in short order you should start seeing files appearing in the selection window.

Providing your program actually has checked all hosts ( and there's over 400 in Moak's list, which takes a few minutes) then all should be well. If not, please give us a few specifics ( can't see any files, can't transfer between task items, can't see any transfers, don't like vanilla ice cream, etc.)

Remember that even tho you may have a file listed in your transfer window, there's a good possibility that the computer upon which that particular file resides is down for the nite ( some people still do that) and that Xolox will find and start downloading the file as soon as the resident computer reconnects to the net.

Sail on!

mandolin man

Re: What is a directory?
 

::RTFM::
or if that fails put the grey box back into the paper box and return to store where you got it from and say:

"I am a dummie, and would like a refund on this Microwave"

help
 

What attatchment do you download and then restart with for not being able to get xolox to connect?

Re: help
 

This is it... Moak's Hostslist.txt file.

If you can't use "save as" after right clicking on it, try "save target as" and save it directly into your Xolox directory. Shut down program and restart.... check out the bottom taskbar and you should see it loading/checking hosts.

d.gieskes@home.nl
 

yet more hostlist troubles!
 

Must...have...hostlist... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!