wixor wrote: > what is the purporose for anti-monopoly feature? The network is > dominated by BearShares and LimeWires (gtk-gnutella-users confirmed), > and finding three peers that would not be all either BearShare and > LimeWire can take up to one hour
Due to the imminent death of GWebCache network it is rather unlikely that you ever see BearShare again once you've purged your local hostcache. BearShare is virtually dead in the water and will completely disappear into its own island. > - frustrated with this, I turned > anti-monopoly off, but they told be at uses mailing list to better > keep it on, because looking for a third peer for an hour is nothing > for me to be worried about. But what is this all stuff for - is it > anything wrong with having monopolized peers (as far as I know, other > clients don't require their peers to be differentiated)? Well, a long time ago we thought it's a good idea to have an open network that is not controlled or dominated by any single vendor. However, lots of vendors disappeared either because Gnutella became too complex, uninteresting or simply because their software sucked. Usually competition keeps things healthy and balanced. I guess this feature has been pointless for quite some time now. It's one of the first things I disable if I install gtk-gnutella from scratch. You wondered why you don't see Shareaza: Their support for Gnutella has stopped around the time they introduced their own protocol several years ago. It cannot even serve as Ultrapeer because they never implemented it (properly). The same can be said about most others like MLDonkey or giFT. I think Gnucleus supports it but is apparently discontinued. Morpheus uses old Gnucleus code but is rather dubious software and due to the old core it's missing a lot things and has bugs anyway. -- Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel
