Hello, I am the author of a gnutella web cache called Beacon Cache. I've noticed there are a lot more specification 1 hits than specification 2 hits. With this...
... The Gnutella Web Cache system has been dead for a long time. The UDP host cache is now the preferred solution. And gtk-gnutella no longer uses the...
Greetings everyone, I am new to gnutella. I have a question about GGEP. The GGEP Specification does not say anything about about the format of the GGEP...
Hi, This list has been a bit quite during the last few months (cutting out the 'please help with specification' posts), so I wanted to ask, who actively works...
Hello David, Welcome to Gnutella. ... Indeed, it is. ... It is the duty of each "key author" to document the format of the values, as stated above. If the...
... No, the Gnutella protocol has reached some level of maturity nowadays. ... Nonetheless, there are things that I'd like to work on when I get some free ...
Hey Arne! How've you been? I'm still around, just quietly watching the few things that come by nowadays. It's indeed a shame that things have fallen to the...
... some free ... that happy ... wrong, ... fuzzy. ... because ... it is ... inter- ... out of ideas, ... implement ... Perhaps this has something to do with...
Hi Michael, I've been studying physics for about 4 years, now, and I learned serious Python programming about 9 months ago (working on an RPG backend for a...
... I see at least one clear solution to that: Write your code community-based and always license it under the GPL, so you aren't a good target. Shooting you...
... What do you think about papers like the following: - http://www.holger-kampffmeyer.de/?q=de/node/97 Improving searching through epidemic spreading. Or some...
I have looked through the Gnutella documentation, but I cannot seem to find the answer to this. The documentation says that if the servent that contains the...
... Not exactly: it's not possible through TCP but possible through UDP that does not require the allocation of a port number to the incoming connection. For...
Hello, The LimeWire specs for the DHT are a promising start, but after reading them a looking at how I would implment something inter-operable, I have the...
Thanks for the explanation. I've found an easy-to-understand explanation of UDP hole punching, outlined step-by-step (for Skype, but it applies to p2p as...
Hello, After reading the message format Wiki page, I need to change the followin ... Indeed, on first reading I had missed the fact that a FIND_NODE would ...
Hello Raphael, About the security token: I think this link is where securityToken was introduced. http://wiki.limewire.org/index.php?title=OutOfBandV3 This...
Hello Peng, ... It is unfortunate that there is no lifetime attached to the generated security tokens. I guess it's too late to change that now, since the ...
Hi all, I have a suggestion for using the DHT to find download sources. Since it works differently to a standard Kademlia lookup I thought I'd ask for comments...
[Warning: long message ahead] ... I'm not sure we have to introduce these new non-standard calls in Kademlia. My preference goes strongly for a sloppy DHT...
... I really like this proposal, it's a lot more elegant than mine. Just a couple of minor points to add below. ... The probability of an SHA1 collision is...
... I know the probability is low, however... ... ... that would make the nature of the data stored opaque. I prefer a scheme where the nature of the data...
I saw many good ideas! Instead of going to the technique details directly, however, I'd like to take a step back and get requirements, etc clear, as I...
... Wouldn't implementing a decentral spam detection system ( like http://credence-p2p.org ) solve the rare searches problem far more efficiently? With that,...
... querying ... have the ... quite good job ... Good point! But I am not really sure if reputation based anti spam systems work well for rare files. Any ideas...
... I don't think it's about detecting rare files via the system. It is about detecting the extremely well spread spam files. The rare files are the rest which...
... 6) One more: Searching for file metadata by its hash. Is Kademlia efficient enough to allow for querying the network for "notes" on each result? That...
Search results could carry "notes" metadata where users can add distributed notes to files - to search results as well as to shared files. I can think of two...
