On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:03:21 +0100, Ralph Slooten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:22:59 +0100 > Francisco Alcaraz Ariza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mldonkey runs fine and uses the eDonkey servers. You can download it from > > Penguin Liberation Front. Remember, if you have a firewall enabled you must > > open the tcp ports from 4660 to 4666 > > > > God luch! > > And also remember that you will be hated by hub owners of other networks like > Direct Connect, who will probably ban your IP the second you try connect > (scripted), as MLdonkey is a very unpopular client due to it's greedyness. I > haven't actually tried it myself, but from what I know it's kind-of like a > web-crawler logging into several different networks and so on, finding your > files, and it's simply due to this data-traffic generated by just one client > that it's become the "Nazi of file-sharing programs". I'm not trying to start > yet another long chain of bunny-bashing yes-no-maybe e-mails, just informing > you;-) If you first use Mldonkey, and then switch to, let's say DCGui (Direct > Connect Client), chances are you won't get into any of the popular servers due > to your IP ban. Your IP is normally published directly into the main chat to > make matters more interesting, telling everyone that you are using Mldonkey, > leaving you to a peril of the kiddie-hackers. > > I haven't experienced this myself, so I'm not talking from experience, but I > do have a lot of contact of Direct Connect hub-owners, who all use these kind > of scripts. I would too, if only I could get my bloody script to work ;-)
According to the MLDonkey FAQ (http://www.nongnu.org/mldonkey/faq.html), only the eDonkey and Overnet networks are supported in the official release. To connect to other networks, you need to be using a CVS build. MLDonkey has full client (and some server) support of the eDonkey network. Unfortunately, on Overnet it can only download, which the MLDonkey developers blame on a lack of cooperation on the part of the Overnet developers. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] "It is particularly easy to cut down the load on the [UNIX] system so that only the minimum number of services is running. This reduced complexity aids stability and transparency." -- Microsoft, 'Converting a UNIX .COM Site to Windows', 2000-22-08
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