On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:46:50 -0700
Keith Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Also, www.freenethelp.org didn't work for me. Does anyone know if 
> the site is out of service, or just temporarily down?

It's most likely temporary. It just took me a couple of tries to get
through to it, via web or traceroute, but it did come up. The person who
maintains that site is an active participant on these lists.

> Anyway, I just discovered Freenet and downloaded and installed 
> the client. When I right click on the icon is the tray and choose 
> Open Gateway, my browser opens but I get a "Connection refused" 
> error.
> 
> Can anyone give me any ideas on what to look for in resolving 
> this problem?

Your best bet is probably the freenet.log file generated in the
directory where you installed Freenet. Most of the entries won't make a
lot of sense to a new user, and if your log is over a couple of megs, I
wuold suggest shutting down Freenet, deleting freenet.log, then starting
up Freenet again. If it continues to hang up, send the last few entries
out of the log to this list.

Another possibility, is there an application on the local machine which
uses port 8888? That's the port that Freenet's web interface uses by
default, so if you have something else (such as a web proxy) running
locally on that port, it would cause some problems.

And finally what version of Java are you using? Some JREs run Freenet
perfectly while others seem to have problems.

All in all, don't be discouraged that it isn't working yet! It can take
some tweaks to get Freenet running properly.

-s
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