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Gnutella: Alive, Well, And Changing Fast
Benno writes: "Clip2 has put up a nice story about the latest developments on Gnutella: Gnutella: Alive, Well, and Changing Fast." It's good to see that they're solving the scalability problems.
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You'll be glad to know that we stopped requiring the weird proxy configurations a couple of versions ago. To run the new version is simply: "tar -xzf ./mojonation-*.tar.gz ; ./mojonation/evil/Broker --no-tail ; netscape ./.mojonation/broker/intropage.html".
The windows version is apparently even easier to install -- it has some kind of gui point-and-drool installer that untars and executes these things for you, or something. ;-)
We also recently fixed several really nasty "distributed bugs", which didn't show up at all on any particular broker, but which caused the entire network to degrade. Nowadays Mojo Nation is much faster and more robust than it was last time you tried it.
Regards,
Zooko
>Otherwise, quit yer whining and accept the ISP's rules. Its a great theory to try abiding by the rules, but it doesn't work. My ISP Mediaone/RoadRunner/AT&T/whoever buys em next month) allows servers but has a list of server users aren't allowed to run. I called to get a copy of this list, and guess what? They refused to give me one stating they don't have one available to subscribers. Sure makes it hard to be a good little boy and obey the rules when I'm not even allowed to know what those rules are.
treke
Even if we get Gnutella to a point where even those folks on dial up modems can participate in the grand link-up, I'm a bit worried about what the broadband ISP monopolies (@home anyone?) will do to dissuade their customers from using such a product. Most broadband providers prohibit their users from running 'servers'. .02$
Now you know what a server is, and I know what a server is, but my ISP seems to have a very broad definition of what a server is, and they seem to change it to suit their needs. I think that it will be used as a very unsubtle smackdown for anything that threattens to use all the bandwidth I pay for.
The media industry will whine about a functional Gnutella, and the media providers will be happy to try a ham-handed solution.
just my
These are breasts; this is source code.
These are breasts; this is source code.
Why do you have a problem with those two things belonging to one person?
This article calls it the download failure problem. Basically, whenever I try to download something from Napster or Gnutella, it either times out or it comes in at less than 1 K/s and then times out halfway through. These problems don't happen nearly as often with Mojo Nation.
Even ignoring all the stuff about freeloaders and economics, Mojo Nation solves other problems, too.
The article mentions that Mojo Nation has already solved the largest problem that plagues Gnutella (and Napster in my experience), so why keep Gnutella on life support? Why not just switch to Mojo Nation?